De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames : de Jehan bocasse ; [traslate & iprime nouellemet a paris]

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, Verard, Antoine, d. ca. 1513, printer · Paris : Anthoine Verard · 31 pictures

A 1493-era French printed translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed in Paris by Antoine Verard for a courtly and clerical readership. Its woodcuts repeat one standing crowned woman holding a child in a tiled interior, beside two-column gothic type; a designer could take the stiff framing, the repeated block, and the tall narrow architectural setting as a model for a simple vertical scene with a recurring figure.

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