De claris mulieribus

Boccaccio's collection of 106 biographies of women from myth and history — the first such collection in the West — here in its first illustrated and first dated edition. Johann Zainer's woodcuts, the earliest book illustrations made at Ulm, set each subject in a firm decorative outline matched by an elaborate historiated opening initial, and established Ulm as a centre of incunable illustration alongside his bilingual Ulm Aesop of three years later.