Arnold of Villanova, Regimen Sanitatis, the handbook of health, in Latin, manuscript on paper 32 leaves, plus medieval flyleaf, 210mm. by 145mm., complete, collation: i-iv8, with horizontal catchwords in red cartouches and medieval foliation in roman numerals, about 25 lines (number varies), written-space c.150mm. by 103mm., written in dark brown ink in a quite large cursive bookhand, heading in red, paragraph-marks and initials throughout in red, early additions on flyleaf and on last leaf (originally blank), some stains, inner margins of many pages defective (probably caused by damp) and repaired with old paper, with loss of some words of text on at least the first 8 leaves, other wear, modern limp vellum
Arnold of Villanova, Regimen Sanitatis, the handbook of health, in Latin, manuscript on paper 32 leaves, plus medieval flyleaf, 210mm. by 145mm., complete, collation: i-iv8, with horizontal catchwords in red cartouches and medieval foliation in roman numerals, about 25 lines (number varies), written-space c.150mm. by 103mm., written in dark brown ink in a quite large cursive bookhand, heading in red, paragraph-marks and initials throughout in red, early additions on flyleaf and on last leaf (originally blank), some stains, inner margins of many pages defective (probably caused by damp) and repaired with old paper, with loss of some words of text on at least the first 8 leaves, other wear, modern limp vellum
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