Albrecht of Brandenburg, Kriegs Ordenung, on the management of an army, in German, illuminated manuscript on paper 381 leaves (2 blank), 398 mm. by 256 mm., apparently complete, collation: i2, ii-v6, vi6+1 [p. 54 added], vii-xiv6, xv4, xvi-xxi6, xxii8, xxiii6, xxiv8, xxv-xxxii6, xxxiii6+1. xxxiv-lxiii6, lxiv3 [of 4, blank iv cancelled], paginated in pencil (followed here), up to 32 lines, written in dark brown ink in a slightly backward-sloping calligraphic German Fraktur script, many headings in very large gothic hands with very elaborate flourishing, some calligraphic ornament and decorative tail-pieces, some pages with tables of numbers and prices ruled in black and red, sixty full-page miniatures in full colours and occasional heightening in liquid gold, very slight dampstaining near the beginning and edges a little frayed on the first few pages, one or two gatherings a little loose, generally in very fine condition, bound in eighteenth-century calf, spine in compartments gilt, red edges, binding worn, rebacked with spine laid on
Albrecht of Brandenburg, Kriegs Ordenung, on the management of an army, in German, illuminated manuscript on paper 381 leaves (2 blank), 398 mm. by 256 mm., apparently complete, collation: i2, ii-v6, vi6+1 [p. 54 added], vii-xiv6, xv4, xvi-xxi6, xxii8, xxiii6, xxiv8, xxv-xxxii6, xxxiii6+1. xxxiv-lxiii6, lxiv3 [of 4, blank iv cancelled], paginated in pencil (followed here), up to 32 lines, written in dark brown ink in a slightly backward-sloping calligraphic German Fraktur script, many headings in very large gothic hands with very elaborate flourishing, some calligraphic ornament and decorative tail-pieces, some pages with tables of numbers and prices ruled in black and red, sixty full-page miniatures in full colours and occasional heightening in liquid gold, very slight dampstaining near the beginning and edges a little frayed on the first few pages, one or two gatherings a little loose, generally in very fine condition, bound in eighteenth-century calf, spine in compartments gilt, red edges, binding worn, rebacked with spine laid on
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