Extent: 1 volume (192 leaves) ; 290 x 215 (202 x 112) mm
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Collation: Paper, ii + 192 + i; 1-1910 202; catchwords in lower right-hand margin surrounded by 4 flourishes. Script: Written in a rapid, skillful humanistic cursive. Layout: 34 long lines; ruled in drypoint. Decoration: Includes red capitals, some polychrome, and gold marginal decorations. On fol. 1 is a 6-line initial V in burnished gold with white vine decoration extending into the side and top margins, with rayed discs; colors used are pure blue and pale muddy red, dotted white, and deep green, dotted yellow; the flowers at the ends of the vine are pointy, in the Florentine style. A similar but... Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards; rebacked. Occasional marginal notes in at least 3 15th- and 16th-century hands. The index of the front flyleaf, dating from ca. 1530-1550, bears the subscription: "Finis huiusce operis tabule A me Camillo brunello Th[lti?] scripte atque compositae etc. Vale." On end pastedown, possibly in the same hand: "Al mio Magnifico & honorando Sa[lm?] A li di passati[?] Io pier martira sticti In ... monte Sancto...
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