Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger; title written in ink on lower page edges reads in part Tract[atus] diversor[um] ... manu prop[ria] conscripti. Collation: Paper, 331; 1-410 512 6-710 812 9-2610 278 28-3210 3310 (-10); [1-6], 7-327, [328-331]; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto, very faded at beginning and end of manuscript. Catchwords lower center on final versos of gatherings. Layout: Written in 40-55 long lines; verticals folded. Script: Written in cursive script; former pastedowns written in 12th-century transitional script (or protogothic script). Decoration: Diagrams of consanguinity (f. 103v) and affinity (f. 105r) in brown and red, added later; 39 diagrams in the Tractatus Tiberiadis, many including the Tiber, in red, brown, blue, and yellow ink (f. 298v-304v, 305v, 310v-316r, 317v); rubrics and paragraph marks in red; occasional manicules. 12th-century pastedowns have initials in red and one large initial in red with infill of... Binding: Wooden boards (split lengthwise along wormholes) on three leather bands, remains of leather on spine and inside covers. 12th-century parchment bifolia used as pastedowns, now removed and preserved separately and stored with the manuscript. Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century. Sold at auction at Christie's, 4 June 2003, lot 16, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
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