Binding: Eighteenth-century half-bound vellum over marbled paper boards; gold-tooling on spine; also on spine in capital letters on dark brown label: "Sapientiam/ Salomonis/ Manoscr./ Cartac." Layout: One column of twenty-three lines; blindruled with double vertical bounding lines; occasional partial top line in metal point; written area: 147 x 90 mm Script: Humanistic cursive Decoration: Spaces for seven-line initials left open at the beginning of each book; chapters have spaces for two-line initials and a few lines are left blank between chapters, perhaps for headings; guide letters visible in most spaces; the first two to seven lines of each book are written in rustic capitals Provenance: Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century; notes in various hands on front pastedown: "Ambrosii", "7", "Cod. III. Latine"; on f. i "Forsam Rabbi Salomon" has been lined out; below that "Di fogli 150"; at the bottom of fol. i recto and continuing on to the verso are notes in Italian that explain how one owner discovered the attribution to Ambrose, along with the...
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