Saint Cyprian, letters and other related works, in Latin, humanistic manuscript on vellum [northern Italy (probably Padua), c.1470] 279 folios, 300mm. by 220mm., wanting a single leaf between fols.1-2 (missing second part of index and beginning of prologue, completed by inserted nineteenth-century paper bifolium), else complete, collation: i7 (ii wanting), ii8; iii–xxvi10; xxvii4, some catchwords with penwork flourishes and line-drawn leaves, single column, 32 lines of black ink in at least two fine Italian humanistic hands, rubrics in faded red, proper names on fols.150-56 in faded red ornamental capitals, significant texts with incipits and explicits in simple ornamental red capitals, one-line initials in red or blue, one hundred 2- to 6-line initials in brightly burnished gold on parti-colored blue and grey grounds heightened with white tracery, slight spots and stains throughout, else in excellent condition with wide and clean margins, seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over pasteboard, gilt compartments
Saint Cyprian, letters and other related works, in Latin, humanistic manuscript on vellum [northern Italy (probably Padua), c.1470] 279 folios, 300mm. by 220mm., wanting a single leaf between fols.1-2 (missing second part of index and beginning of prologue, completed by inserted nineteenth-century paper bifolium), else complete, collation: i7 (ii wanting), ii8; iii–xxvi10; xxvii4, some catchwords with penwork flourishes and line-drawn leaves, single column, 32 lines of black ink in at least two fine Italian humanistic hands, rubrics in faded red, proper names on fols.150-56 in faded red ornamental capitals, significant texts with incipits and explicits in simple ornamental red capitals, one-line initials in red or blue, one hundred 2- to 6-line initials in brightly burnished gold on parti-colored blue and grey grounds heightened with white tracery, slight spots and stains throughout, else in excellent condition with wide and clean margins, seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over pasteboard, gilt compartments
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