Extent: 14 leaves : parchment ; 415 x 304 mm bound to 430 x 306 mm
Note:
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 14 + i (modern paper); I³, II⁴; [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; single catchword in frame (f. 14v). Colophon (f. 5v-6r) gives the name of the notary and the date: Ego ho[norius?] sancti jacobi filius Monete ... Title from f. 3v and 7r. Ms. codex. Layout: Written in two columns of 50-55 lines; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible. Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by multiple hands, with marginalia and corrections also in various hands. Binding: Vellum over cardboard, with ties woven through slits in front and back, 20th century; cover boards slightly warped, vellum split and peeling off boards around the edges. Decoration: 2-line and 3-line initials in red and brown ink; extensive rubrication throughout; marginal drawing of two figures talking (f. 2v). Incipit has faded; it would be legible under ultraviolet light. Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century; f. 5v gives date of 1261; f. 7v gives 1273. Purchased, 1954. Archivio Magherini Grazziani (from Rudolf Hirsch's notes).
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