Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson .. (1907)
Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · London, Printed at the Chiswick Press · leaf 42
Boccaccio reading in his library, which is spacious and, for the Middle Ages, comfortable. … BOCCACCIO IN HIS LIBRARY. Plate LIV, f. 3, contains four subjects from the Book of Genesis, ending with the murder of Abel, which sufficiently explain themselves. Plate LV, f. 35b. Book 2. This picture is divided horizontally into two sections, in each of which there are two subjects. Below, on the…
Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · Illumination of books and manuscripts
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
