It is frequently quoted in the present
translation.
VIII. (No. 1523). A folio vol., calf, from the De La Marre library. The
first two leaves are deficient, and the text ends with the fifth tale of
Day IV.
IX. (No. 1522). A small folio, bound in parchment, from the De La Marre
library. Only the tales of the first four days are complete, and on
folio 259 begins a long poem called Les Prisons, the work probably of
William Filandrier, whom Queen Margaret protected. On the first folio of
the volume is the inscription, in sixteenth-century handwriting: _Pour
ma sour Marie Philander_. The poem _Les Prisons_ is quoted on pp.
xxxviii.-ix. vol. i. of the present work. It concludes with an epitaph
on Margaret, dated 1549.
X. (No. 1524). A folio vol. from Colbert's library, bound in red and
yellow morocco, on which is painted, on a blue ground, a vine laden with
grapes twining round the trunk of a tree. On either side and in gold
letters is the device, _Sin e doppo la morte_ (until and after death).
Following the title-page, on which the work is called "The Decameron of
the most high and most illustrious Princess, Madame Margaret of France,"
is a curious preface signed "Adrian de Thou," and dated "Paris, August
8, 1553.
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