Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (French translation), Initial 'A' with a squirrel and a hare, This manuscript contains Jean (also known as Johannes) Lamelin's abridged, French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men). The contents, including the colophon, are very closely related to the autograph work of 1431 by Lamelin (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3880), which is the only other known copy of this text

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