Layout: 1 column Script: Small cancell bastarda secretary hand. Decoration: Space for initial capital left unfilled. Binding: Bound with a printed work: Bruni, Leonardo, et al. Leonardi Arretini Epistolarum Familiarum Liber Primus Feliciter Incipit. (1472). Wood boards with evidence of three leather clasps, rebacked and with renewed endpapers. Evidence of worming before and after addition of endpapers. Minor smudging towards the end of the text. Provenance: From the library of George Dunn. Purchased by Alfred Clark Chapin from James F. Drake (D30) on behalf of the Chapin Library. The text of the Preface begins: "[A]ristotelis ethicorum libros latinos facere nuper instituti: non quia prins traducti non essont: sed quia sic traduct: erant ut barbari".
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