Extent: 147 leaves : parchment ; 190 x 130 (125-135 x 60-65) mm. bound to 199 x 137 mm.
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Ms. codex. The first 36 folios contain numerous brief glosses in the margins (mostly of place-names that occur in the text). Folios 105 and 112 have been incorrectly bound, and the modern foliation has taken the error into account. Thus, the folios are numbered: 1-104, 106-111, 105, 113-120, 112, 121-147. Many of the folios are palimpsest; the earlier script appears to be a 14th or 15th century cursive, and may be written in a vernacular, possibly Portugese. Several mutilated folios which are missing marginal strips of parchment have been repaired with tissue. The last two folios (both blank) have been pasted together, apparently to repair the mutilation of the second. Layout: Written in 25-26 long lines; framed-ruled in dry point. Prickings sometimes visible. Script: Humanistic round. Binding: 19th cent., red morocco, by J. Héritier. Spine is wrongly lettered "Ptolomaeus Geograph.", but now covered with the correct label: "Plinius / Historia Natura / lis / Books 3-6". Accompanying materials: Note in blue ink in a modern hand, tipped into the front flyleaves, indicating the contents of the codex. Typed note on index card which claims Portugese origin for the codex and suggests that it "very probably belonged to one of the old navigators" (but no reasons for these suppositions are given). Origin: Probably written in Italy, 15th century. Provenance: Purchased in 1885 from Maisonneuve & Co., Paris, by George Lincoln Burr for A.D. White. Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare P P72 N2 Related shelfmark: MS B.6 (De Ricci)
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