(Q3888)
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Mulomedicina
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Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
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Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
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Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
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Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800
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Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800
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Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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[between 1450 and 1475]
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 92 leaves : parchment ; 209 x 147 (150 x 114) mm bound to 216 x 156 mm
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Ms. codex.
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Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Ferrara, between 1450 and 1475 (Les Enluminures).
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Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
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Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 92 + i (modern paper); 1⁶ 2² 3-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-10¹⁰ 11⁸(-2); [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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Layout: Written in 32 long lines; frame-ruled, with vertical bounding lines in lead and horizontals in faint ink.
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Script: Written in humanistic minuscule, with later additions by a 16th-century hand at the end of the volume (f. 91v-92v).
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Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboard.
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Decoration: 6 illuminated initials in a style suggesting origins in northern Italy, likely Ferrara (Les Enluminures), in pink, green, and blue on gold grounds, all but one with decorative extensions of leaves, flowers, and gold disks in margins marking the beginning of each book (Book 1, 4 lines, f. 1r, and 3 lines, gold letter on multicolored ground, f. 2r; Book 2, 5 lines, f. 24v; Book 3, 8...
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2006.
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Coat of arms of owner effaced, leaving the initials GE (f. 1r).
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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