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This detail from a posthumous Paris edition of Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes by Florentine poet and man of letters Giovanni Boccaccio is one of a sequence of vignettes depicting creation.
Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). 318 leaves. 42.5 x 29.3 cm (16 3/4 x 11 9/16 ins.) Ms. 63; 96.MR17. Plate: Boucicaut Master and Workshop, The Story of Adam and Eve, fol. 3. (c. 1415). Reproduced in Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles : Thames and Hudson, 1997. ISBN : 0500170134. 128p. p. 75.
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