The very last ‘Fall of Princes’?
Known familiarly as the ‘Audley End Lydgate’, the mid-15th century vellum manuscript shown below is ‘The Fall of Princes’, a Middle English version by the poet John Lydgate of Laurent de Premierfait’s French translation of Boccaccio’s De Casibus virorum illustrium.
Sold by Christie’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on July 11 for £320,000, the work is both one of …