Manuscript component part. Caption title. Listed as text 5 of "Humanistic Collection" (Case MS 93.6) in Catalogue of the pre-1500 western manuscript books at the Newberry Library page 180. Declamatio Lucretiae by Coluccio Salutati. The second part has caption: Altera pars Declamationis. V[ue] Lucretiae rñsio. The work is discussed in Alfred V. Martin's edition of Salutati's Tractatus de tyranno (Berlin, 1913), page 18. Martin cites a number of manuscript sources. According to Martin, the text was originally published in the Epistolae familiares of Pope Pius II (Milan, 1496), letter no. 427. Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in hard-point. Script: Written in textura script. Decoration: Some initials in blue. Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century. Former owner: Matteo Luigi Canonici of Venice (1727-1806) with his summary table of contents on slip tipped onto front flyleaf. Bookplate: Walter Sneyd.
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