Written in a humanistic script in 1 column of 33 lines with marginal notations in pale red; title page with large gilt initial and border in white-vine decoration and with arms of Pope Sixtus IV; 1 half-page miniature of the pope enthroned, surrounded by a cardinal and 3 Augustinian monks, with a portrait medallion within a white-vine border (f. 2r); 14 gilt historiated initials representing... Letter is dated Rome, 1475 (f. 17r). Title supplied by cataloger. Bound in late 15th-cent. blind-tooled brown sheep. In a tray case, 19 cm. Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951. Belonged to A.W.M. Mensing; his sale (London, 15 Dec. 1936, I, lot 177); Richardson.
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