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Boccaccio's Des cleres et nobles femmes: systems of signification in an illuminated manuscript

Buettner, Brigitte.

Year: c1996.

Publisher: College Art Association in association with University of Washington Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

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

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Title:

Boccaccio's Des cleres et nobles femmes : systems of signification in an illuminated manuscript / Brigitte Buettner.

Author:

Buettner, Brigitte

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Boccaccio's Des cleres et nobles femmes : systems of signification in an illuminated manuscript / Brigitte Buettner.
Buettner, Brigitte
Seattle: College Art Association in association with University of Washington Press, c1996.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04024

Subject Headings:

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, -- 1313-1375. -- De mulieribus claris -- Illustrations
• Bibliothèque nationale (France). -- Manuscript. -- Ms. 12420
• Women in art
• Goddesses in art
• Symbolism in art
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic -- France
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, French

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