Written in humanistic script in 1 column of 26 lines; 1 small miniature, 1 historiated initial and 1 large frontispiece medallion in color and burnished gold; 1 inhabited white-vine border on f. 2r, 32 diagrams in gold, silver and colored inks, numerous decorated and colored initials in blue and red. Written and illuminated in Italy (Florence?) Title from frontispiece medallion. Bound in original blind-tooled Italian red goatskin. In a tray case, 33 cm. Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951. Possibly belonged to Matthias Corvinus (based on an otherwise unrecorded royal emblem (f. 2r); Count Anton Apponyi of Vienna and Pressbourg, until 1817; Count Louis Apponyi; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 10 Nov. 1892, lot 9); bought by Quaritch; Robert Hoe; his sale (New York, Anderson, 8-12 Jan. 1912, II, lot 2417); bought by Richardson.
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