Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 3r). Collation: Parchment, 26 + i (parchment); 12 2-310 44; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record. Layout: Written in 30 long lines (f. 3r-18v) and 36 long lines (f. 19v-23v); ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in lead visible on some leaves (f. 3r-19r) and ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines (f. 19v-26v) Script: Written in humanistic script by Francesco di Andrea Ruffo (f. 3-17) and Alessandro di Nicolo Medico (f. 19-23), with a few documents copied by another hand (f. 1r-2v, 18r-18v). Decoration: 1 11-line illuminated initial (f. 3r) and 3 illuminated initials (4- to 8-line) in left margins (f. 6v, 9r, 13v) by a pupil or follower of Veronese illuminator Felice Feliciano; red and blue paragraph marks on one opening (f. 3v-4r). Binding: Original Veronese calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled; 4 catches, no clasps; rebacked. Origin: Written in Verona in 1504. Sold at auction at Internationaal Antiquariaat (Amsterdam), 22 March 1961, lot 915. Formerly owned by B. S. Cron, Kew, 1 July 1965 (inscription inside upper cover). Appears in Alan Thomas' cat. 18 (1967), no. 4. Formerly owned by J. R. Abbey, ms. no. JA 7387, 17 June 1967 (London; bookplate inside upper cover; inscription inside lower cover). Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 20 June 1978, lot 2992. Appears in H. P. Kraus' cat. 159 (1981), no. 9; handled subsequently by Martin Breslauer. Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 Apr. 1996, lot 8. Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996. Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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