Extent: 100 leaves : paper, illustrated ; 150 x 105 (97 x 60) mm
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Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Paper (watermarked with crescent and flower somewhat similar to Briquet, 5296-5297); 1-310 48 5-610 712 8-1010; vertical catchwords. Layout: Written in 25 long lines beginning in the first ruled line; ruled in hard point and plummet. Script: Written in humanistic textualis formata. Decoration: fol.1r: gold dentelle initial with white patterning on a violet ground severely damaged by moisture; fol. 64r: gold dentelle initial with white patterning on a violet ground, historiated in the interior with a scroll. Origin: Written in Brescia by Tadeus Solacius in 1477, signed and dated on fol. 96r: Crispi Salustii historici celeberrimi de coniuratione Catilinȩ opus foeliciter transcriptum est per me Tadeum Solacium xv kalendas octobres anno millesimo quadragentesimio [sic] septuagessimo [sic] septimo, Eustachio prȩtore ac Iohanne Emo Brixiȩ prȩfecto. Former owner's inscription: Ego Hyeronimus Robertus ab infrascripto Tadeo emi librum istum. Includes contemporary corrections, glosses, notes, and "nota" marks by several Italian humanistic hands. Bookplate: Henry Allen. Bookplate: Philip Hofer.
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