Hieremias de Montagnone, Compendium moralium notabilium and other works, in Latin and Italian, manuscript on vellum 210 leaves, 398mm. by 260mm., wanting the first gathering and four leaves (one of those, fol. 180, originally blank and cancelled), collation: i6, ii9 (viii a singleton), iii-xvii10, xviii3 (last one blank and cancelled), xix-xxii10, xxiii2, horizontal catchwords and early foliation running 9-223 (occasional missing numbers but followed here), written space 258mm. by 160mm., 2 columns, 50 lines in black ink in a fine rounded Gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, space left for numerous 2- to 4-line initials (often several per page) with tiny guide-initials, some staining and cockling and a small amount of rodent damage to lower outer corner, else in good and robust condition with wide and clean margins, in mid-fifteenth century binding of white leather over wooden boards, paper pastedown at back with watermark matching Briquet 14,715 (1431-2, Vicenza), traces of central metal bosses and metalwork on binding, now with only 6 corner-pieces remaining (perhaps later), thongs replaced
Hieremias de Montagnone, Compendium moralium notabilium and other works, in Latin and Italian, manuscript on vellum 210 leaves, 398mm. by 260mm., wanting the first gathering and four leaves (one of those, fol. 180, originally blank and cancelled), collation: i6, ii9 (viii a singleton), iii-xvii10, xviii3 (last one blank and cancelled), xix-xxii10, xxiii2, horizontal catchwords and early foliation running 9-223 (occasional missing numbers but followed here), written space 258mm. by 160mm., 2 columns, 50 lines in black ink in a fine rounded Gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, space left for numerous 2- to 4-line initials (often several per page) with tiny guide-initials, some staining and cockling and a small amount of rodent damage to lower outer corner, else in good and robust condition with wide and clean margins, in mid-fifteenth century binding of white leather over wooden boards, paper pastedown at back with watermark matching Briquet 14,715 (1431-2, Vicenza), traces of central metal bosses and metalwork on binding, now with only 6 corner-pieces remaining (perhaps later), thongs replaced
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