Extent: 96 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 235 x 167 (150 x 105) mm bound to 241 x 168 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Incipit (1st work, f. 2v): Primo definire opportet quid nam sit nomen et quid verbum. Also includes dedicatory prefaces to Piero de' Medici (f. 1r-2v) and Cosimo de' Medici (f. 35v-36r). This manuscript represents an early version of the text (Zacour-Hirsch). Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in drypoint. Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, with marginal annotations in at least one other hand. Decoration: Illuminated initial in gold, blue and green (f. 1r); blue initials and rubricated headings throughout; diagrams in red interspersed in the text. Binding: Contemporary wooden boards. Upper cover nearly detached. Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1950.
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