Author: Buettner, Brigitte
Title: Boccaccio's "Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes": Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript
Description: Seattle, College Art Association, 1996. Hardcover. A burgundy casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a blue spine. Pages: (7), viii-x, 1-139, (58). Contains fifty-seven pages of plates, mostly in black-and-white. "The first surviving illuminated manuscript of the French translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, known as the Cleres femmes (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), is the subject of this book. The manuscript was commissioned by a Parisian merchant, Jacques Raponde, as a New Year's gift for the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold. This innovative aspect of the commission, where a merchant rather than a prince acted as the patron of the manuscript, provides the. Subject for the first part of Buettner's study. In addition to sketching the Valois rulers' practice of collecting illuminated manuscripts and to tracing the reasons for the successful reception of Boccaccio's work in this courtly milieu, the author delineates the role of merchants in Parisian artistic production around 1400." Contents are as follows: I. The Manuscript as Object. Jacques Raponde, Merchant of Manuscripts. The De mulieribus claris as a French Success -- II. Images as Readers. A Pictorial Gallery of Women. System and Reality -- III. Pictorial Elements as Meaning. On Costumes, Bodies, and Gestures. On Colors and Light. On Spatial Inscriptions. On Visualizing Time -- Appendix. Fifteenth-Century Des cleres et nobles femmes Manuscripts. VG/VG .

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