Decameron (Paris BnF It. 63)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Italien 63 is an illustrated fifteenth-century manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It preserves the complete Italian text of one hundred stories framed as tales told by ten young people sheltering from the plague.

The Decameron was written by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in the fourteenth century. The fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as Italien 63 preserves this collection of one hundred stories.

The Decameron contains one hundred stories told over ten days by ten young people who retreat to the countryside to escape the plague. The fifteenth-century manuscript Paris BnF It. 63 preserves this complete Italian collection with illustrations.

Paris BnF It. 63 is a fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript of the Decameron, containing visual depictions of scenes from Boccaccio's stories alongside the Italian text. The manuscript is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris as part of its Italian manuscript collection.