Extent: 70 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm bound to 270 x 204 mm
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1. Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge. Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well. Title from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano. Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r). Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Decoration: Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most... Binding: 19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split. Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v. Origin: Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Ms. codex. Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.
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