Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 52 + i (paper) ; 1-210 36 4-510 66 ; Contremporary arabic folioation (top center recto) by scribe begins with the second leaf ; catchwords on fol. 10v, 20v, and 26v. Layout: Written in 41 long lines. Script: Written in gothic textualis rotunda media; fol. 26 written in gothic cursiva media. Decoration: fol. 1r: flourished initial in red; Germanic minor red initials throughout; diagrams on fol. 27v and 30r; fol. 1-13v, 27v-52r: places for illustrations left blank. Origin: Written in Bohemia in the second half of the 14th century; written for a Czech prelate consult fol. 25v: "Finiuntur declamaciones moralizate Senece comparate per honorabilem virum dominum Bizybiconem archidiaconum et vicariis in spiritualibus. Zdrawa bnd maria mylosti plna ctna knyezno ...." Described in Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada as "Collection of medieval texts on mythology and allegory. Albericus Fulgentius: Exposicio Fulgencij de ymaginibus deorum (ff. 1-13v) -- Enigmata Aristoteles septem (f. 13v-15v) -- Seneca: Declamaciones moralizate (ff. 15v-25v) -- Ricardus de S. Victore: Sermon (in somewhat laters... Former owner: Admonter Bibliothek. Front paste-down, old inscription obliterated by green sticker "Admonter Bibliothek, Schrank 71, No. 483." Listed as no. 483 in Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Admontensis with note that this manuscript sold to L. and A. Brecher (Brünn).
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