Breviary, Use of Rome, in Latin [Italy, Piedmont (Casale Monferrato), dated 1474] 145x105mm, vellum, i+405+i, foliated 2-405, with 188a after 188, and 286-295 after 305 due to a misplaced quire, in quires of 10 except i8, xx8, xxiii10-2 (wanting central bifolium), xxv10-1 (wanting vii), xxxiv10-1 (wanting vii), ff.2, 200-206, 405 blank, 2 columns, 30-31 lines, 90x65mm, 5 HISTORIATED INITIALS, 4 FULL OR PARTIAL BORDERS, AND 9 OTHER ILLUMINATED INITIALS, sporadic minor staining and thumbing, contemporary blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, repaired and re-backed and with new clasps, but RETAINING THE ORIGINAL METAL HOOP BY WHICH IT COULD HAVE BEEN HUNG FROM A BELT
Breviary, Use of Rome, in Latin [Italy, Piedmont (Casale Monferrato), dated 1474] 145x105mm, vellum, i+405+i, foliated 2-405, with 188a after 188, and 286-295 after 305 due to a misplaced quire, in quires of 10 except i8, xx8, xxiii10-2 (wanting central bifolium), xxv10-1 (wanting vii), xxxiv10-1 (wanting vii), ff.2, 200-206, 405 blank, 2 columns, 30-31 lines, 90x65mm, 5 HISTORIATED INITIALS, 4 FULL OR PARTIAL BORDERS, AND 9 OTHER ILLUMINATED INITIALS, sporadic minor staining and thumbing, contemporary blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, repaired and re-backed and with new clasps, but RETAINING THE ORIGINAL METAL HOOP BY WHICH IT COULD HAVE BEEN HUNG FROM A BELT
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