Manual for the Use of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, in Latin [ITALY (ROME), LATE 15TH OR EARLY 16TH CENTURY, NOT BEFORE 1493] c.320x230mm , manuscript on vellum, ii+252+1+i leaves, complete, collation: i–xx10, xxi2, xxii–xxvi10, catchwords, two columns of up to 21 lines of text, or up to 7 lines of text and music on four-line staves with square notation, ruled space c.210x150mm, ff.10r–v, 202r–v ruled otherwise blank, illuminated with 3 large historiated initials and an inhabited full border, 31 smaller illuminated initials with partial borders , 1- and 2-line initials throughout alternately red or blue with elaborate flourishing in the other colour; some rubbing and minor flaking of pigments and ink, but generally in fine condition ; sewn on five bands and bound in 18th-century brown leather over pasteboards with gilt corner- and centrepieces and two catches all finely engraved with vases and flowers ( clasps missing ), the spine lettered in gilt capitals ‘Manuale Augustinianum’, gilt edges, modern fitted box
Manual for the Use of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, in Latin [ITALY (ROME), LATE 15TH OR EARLY 16TH CENTURY, NOT BEFORE 1493] c.320x230mm , manuscript on vellum, ii+252+1+i leaves, complete, collation: i–xx10, xxi2, xxii–xxvi10, catchwords, two columns of up to 21 lines of text, or up to 7 lines of text and music on four-line staves with square notation, ruled space c.210x150mm, ff.10r–v, 202r–v ruled otherwise blank, illuminated with 3 large historiated initials and an inhabited full border, 31 smaller illuminated initials with partial borders , 1- and 2-line initials throughout alternately red or blue with elaborate flourishing in the other colour; some rubbing and minor flaking of pigments and ink, but generally in fine condition ; sewn on five bands and bound in 18th-century brown leather over pasteboards with gilt corner- and centrepieces and two catches all finely engraved with vases and flowers ( clasps missing ), the spine lettered in gilt capitals ‘Manuale Augustinianum’, gilt edges, modern fitted box
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