Newly discovered Rylands manuscript of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes
11 Jul 2013 A University of Manchester academic has discovered an important and previously unknown manuscript by one of the medieval period's greatest thinkers, who was born 700 years ago this year. Dr Guyda Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Italian, identified the uncatalogued manuscript by Giovanni Boccaccio in the University's world famous John Rylands Library. An Italian author and poet, Boccaccio wrote works still influential today, including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta. The manuscript, 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes', is a copy of a rare 1400 translation of the 'De casibus virorum illustrium', made by the French humanist and courtier Laurent de Premierfait. The uncatalogued manuscript has been kept at the Library since 1963. Its existence was previously known only to a few curators, before its significance was identified by Dr Armstrong. Library staff helped her identify its provenance.
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