Illuminated Manuscripts Boccaccio’s Decameron

15^th Century Manuscript

by Edmond Pognon

Translated by J. Peter Tallon

Miller Graphics, Crown Publishers, 1978, [First Edition], colour illustrations throughout, decorated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping (see photographs)

“The hundred short stories which make up the Decameron, the famous work by Boccaccio which has come down to us over the centuries, were illustrated with as many miniatures illuminating a sumptuous manuscript made for the Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne, during the years 1430-1440.  Those miniatures are reproduced in this book, together with various designs or full pages from his work.  This publication is the first of its kind.
Here we have a collection of amusing and significant tales each of which bears the unmistakeable imprint of the Italian – or, more precisely, the Florentine – subtlety of a great period; these are small works of art which  will truly delight the reader.”