Extent: 32 leaves : parchment ; 190 x 130 (140 x 90) mm bound to 200 x 140 mm
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Ms. codex. Titles from Kidd. Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 32 (foliated [1]-32) + ii (modern parchment) ; 112 2-310; first two quires with horizontal catchwords in the middle of the lower margin. Layout: written in 29 long lines; ruled. Script: written in humanist bookhand. Decoration: 3 four- to six-line initials in red with pen flourishes in brown. Binding: 20th-century blue leather over pasteboard with gilt spine title, Cicero XV Saec. MS, gilt edges, and gilt mongram "BCM" of binder, Bernard Chester Middleton. Origin: written probably in northern Italy during the mid fifteenth century. Inscribed in 15th/16th(?)-century majuscules "Gio[va]n(?) Maria. Amen" (fol. 32r). Sold at Sotheby's, January 23-24, 1950, lot 444 ("A Fragment of a Manuscript on vellum of Cicero's works, 32 ll., first initial in red with pen-work decoration, unbound (96 mm. by 33 mm.) 8vo [15th century]." Autograph of Graham Pollard and pencil note in same hand, first upper flyleaf: "bought at Sotheby's c...
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