Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 1989

Vatican Decameron Facsimile Edition

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The Vatican Decameron is a French translation of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is illuminated with 100 large framed miniatures in the International Style identified as the work of the Master of the Cité des Dames. It was produced in Paris between 1414 and 1418, most likely for Jean de France, Duke of Berry, a famed patron of illuminated manuscripts. The miniatures mark the beginnings of the 100 erotic, humorous, and satirical novellas set near Florence against the backdrop of the Black Death.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Vatican Decameron": Decameron Vaticano facsimile edition, published by Egeria, S.L., 2006

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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Decameron Vaticano

Madrid: Egeria, S.L., 2006

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Picone, Michelangelo; König, Eberhard; Montuschi, Claudia; Fernández Vargas, Valentina
  • Limited Edition: 2.990 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Vatican Decameron: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Facsimile edition co-published by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Egeria. Distributed exclusively by Club Internacional del Libro.

Binding

Brown leather binding with gold tooling.

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