A Google Arts & Culture digital exhibition focusing on the Getty Museum’s Department of Manuscripts’s first acquisition to include a female author was recently made its premier. The piece was written by PhD candidate in medieval art and Mellon Fellow Reed O’Mara. The manuscript is from the late fifteenth/early sixteenth centuries and features two works about famous women from history, one by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) and the other by Christine de Pizan (1364–after 1430). While serving as the Curatorial Graduate Intern last year in the Dept. of Manuscripts, Reed helped to write the acquisition report for this manuscript. Reed has since had her research into the richly decorated manuscript shared in Getty’s News & Stories and Getty Magazine, as well as at UCLA’s 2025 conference On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. And now, on Google Arts & Culture.
