Domenico Cavalca, Vite dei Santi Padri, in Italian, manuscript on paper 175 leaves (5 blank), 132mm. by 100mm., lacking one leaf after fol.99, another leaf lost or cancelled after fol.20, else complete, collation: i-ii8, iii7 [of 8, v lacking or cancelled], iv-ix8, x4, xi-xiii8, xiv7 [of 8, lacking i], xv-xxii8, xxiii5 [of 8, vi-viii cancelled, doubtless blank], with horizontal catchwords, pencil foliation (followed here) repeats ‘134’, 17 lines, ruled in pale ink, written-space c.94mm. by 72mm., written in brown ink in a neat rounded gothic bookhand, some flourished cadels, headings in red, 2-line initials throughout in red or blue, a few with decorative penwork in other colours, some larger initials up to 4 lines high with contrasting penwork, a few minor stains, a few wormholes in first page, old name (probably seventeenth-century) on first page “di Gio. Cusi”, contemporary binding of reversed leather (usually called ‘doe skin’) over pasteboards, probably originally coloured red, stubs (only) of two pairs of ties, later marbled pastedowns, binding worn but sound
Domenico Cavalca, Vite dei Santi Padri, in Italian, manuscript on paper 175 leaves (5 blank), 132mm. by 100mm., lacking one leaf after fol.99, another leaf lost or cancelled after fol.20, else complete, collation: i-ii8, iii7 [of 8, v lacking or cancelled], iv-ix8, x4, xi-xiii8, xiv7 [of 8, lacking i], xv-xxii8, xxiii5 [of 8, vi-viii cancelled, doubtless blank], with horizontal catchwords, pencil foliation (followed here) repeats ‘134’, 17 lines, ruled in pale ink, written-space c.94mm. by 72mm., written in brown ink in a neat rounded gothic bookhand, some flourished cadels, headings in red, 2-line initials throughout in red or blue, a few with decorative penwork in other colours, some larger initials up to 4 lines high with contrasting penwork, a few minor stains, a few wormholes in first page, old name (probably seventeenth-century) on first page “di Gio. Cusi”, contemporary binding of reversed leather (usually called ‘doe skin’) over pasteboards, probably originally coloured red, stubs (only) of two pairs of ties, later marbled pastedowns, binding worn but sound
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