Written in northern Italy in a humanistic script with interlinear and marginal annotations, and with colored initials in red. Two fragments of a Milanese charter, 1405, bound in at front. Title from incipit. Bound in early 19th-cent. vellum with red edges. In a protective tray case, 33 cm. Belonged to Abate Luigi Celotti; his sale, London, 14 Mar. 1825, no. 194, to Payne and Foss (cat. May 1825, no. 49); sold to Rev. Henry Drury; his sale, London, 1827, no. 286, to Thorpe for Richard Heber; his sale, London, 1836, XI, no. 998, to Thorpe (cat. 1836, no. 806), sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 9012, not identified in his sale); acquired in 1904 by Charles Eliot Norton. Purchased with funds from Friends of the Library, 1905.
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