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This version of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' is a translation into Flemish by Laurent de Premierfait said to be dateable to 1432. It contains an illustration showing a box which appears to have been made by folding a sheet of either paper or parchment.

As far as I know this picture was first drawn to the attention of the paperfolding world in a letter from Barbara Benson of Atlanta Georgia (aka Donna Serena de Riva) to David Lister, see https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/11546606/paper-folding-in-15th-century-europe-welcome-to-my-website-it-

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