Extent: 341 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 203 x 144 (130 x 73) mm bound to 214 x 146 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). List of contents in contemporary hand (front flyleaf [i] recto). Collation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 340 + i (contemporary paper); 1-2110 228 2310 248 25-2910 308 31-3410 356; [1-340]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record. Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in drypoint. Script: Written in a humanistic script by more than one hand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in various hands. Decoration: Rubricated headings, marginal notes, and paragraph marks; spaces left for initials, some filled in, many with guide letters visible; marginal geometric diagrams in the first and fourth works. Binding: Original tooled calf. Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch). 2nd work Pseudo-Aristotle (Zacour-Hirsch). 3rd work probably translated by Lilius Tifernas (Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, Corrigenda). Title from explicit (f. 274r). 4th work translated by Carolus Valgulius, translation dedicated to Cesare Borgia. Only known work of Cleomedes, later translated under various titles, now known as De mundo. Formerly owned by a member of the Tirabosco family (early ownership inscription in ink, f. 340v). Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
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