Title supplied by cataloger. The text skips books 2-5. Also lacking is the commentary on Book 6 verses 1-157 (which is lacking in all manuscripts); the scribe has left almost an entire quire unwritten at this point (fol. 58 lines 26-39 - fol. 63v), presumably so that the missing text of Book 6 could be added at a later date when (if) it was located in a complete exemplar. Collation: Folio paper with flower watermark similar to Piccard XII.1514 (Rome, 1447). i, 110−1, 2-410, 58, 610, 76, 8-2110, 2210−1, 23-3610, 3710−5; lacking first folio of manuscript (Georgii I.1.1 - I.4.7) and one folio after fol. 208 (Georgii II.286.14 - II.289.5), five cancels at end. Some catchwords trimmed. Early twentieth-century pencil foliaton every ten folios. Layout: 1 column, 39 lines. Bounding lines doubled, bounding and writing lines ruled in blind. Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: 4-line initials in gold with white-vine infill on blue background, filled with green and salmon, at the beginning of each book (those for Books 1 and 10 are on folios that have been razored out) Origin: Written in Italy (probably Florence) around the year 1460. Seventeenth-century inscription on parchment flyleaf "Liberii Claudiani Donati in vergilii declartione equitis Fabii Alessandrii et amicorum". Nineteenth-century French dealer's description pasted inside front cover.
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