upennmanuscripts:Ms. Codex 1077 -  [Alexander] …[etc.]This manuscript features three works: a German

upennmanuscripts:Ms. Codex 1077 -  [Alexander] …[etc.]This manuscript features three works: a German poem in rhymed couplets on the life of Alexander the Great; the Grisardis, a prose narration of the Griselda legend (a moralistic tale about a virtuous prince and a humble maiden), which is an adaptation of the version of the story related in the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron. The third work in the codex, Eurialus und Lucretia, is Niklas von Wyle’s German translation of the tale of the two lovers Eurialus and Lucretia (De duobus amantibus), composed in Latin by Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini).  It was written in Austria or Southern Germany between 1400 and 1475 CE.There is a lot to read, then! Click here to jump right in the facsimile, or here if you prefer to have additional information. -- source link

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