Ms. codex. Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1). Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 168 + ii (modern paper); 1-98, 108(+4), 114, 12-218; [1-332]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Link to collation model at end of record. Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by many different hands. Decoration: Contains blue and red initials throughout, some with green filigree; charts and diagrams throughout Bondi's works. Binding: 19th-century Russian calfskin over pasteboard, botanical rollstamp border, possibly German (Melk?). Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century. Quires 14 (p. 205-220) and 16 (p. 237-252) are palimpsests. The lower text was written on an orientation perpendicular to the second text. The lower text appears to have been documentary in nature. Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk (no. D 73 in the abbey's catalog of 1517; no. F 127 in Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, Bd. I (1915); ink stamp, front flyleaf, p. 1, 332; note, p. 1). Sold by the Stift Melk to London book dealer E. P. Goldschmidt, 1936 (manuscripta.at). Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44 (1937), no. 20. Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.
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