(Q46865)
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Africa
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Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
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Blind tooled bindings (Binding)--15th century
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Greece--1450-1500
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1461.
15. century
1461Gregorian
1461Gregorian
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Extent: 153 leaves, bound ; 23 cm.
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Written in Chios, Greece on 13 June 1461 by Giovanni Antonio de Colli (colophon f. 152v), in a humanistic script. Initial letters are decorated in red and blue, and the initial letters of each line are separated into the margin.
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Original binding in elaborately blind-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, rebacked.
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In a tray case, 25 cm.
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Bought 20 Nov. 1474 at Kaffa, Russia, by Antonius de Bozello from Michaelus Niger, witnessed by Johannes and Leonardus (f. 152v); acquired 20 May 1666 by Antonius Maria Bottus (f. 1r). Purchased in 1941 with the John Harvey Treat fund.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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