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Count Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri’s executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915).
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"as a souvenir of the happy days with which I have begun my life in New York" (letter enclosed), with Poor’s leather booklabel; his sale, New York, 17 November 1908, lot 799, to Morris; Walter T. Wallace (1866-1922), with his armorial bookplate; his sale, New York, 22 March 1920, lot 229, to C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Binding: Contemporary binding of slightly bevelled wooden boards sewn on four bands, covered with brown goatskin, blind-stamped, panelled with a broad frame of multiple impressions of ropework stamps, central compartments stamped in elaborate geometric pattern based around an 8-pointed star within concentric frames of ropework stamps and small plugs and rosettes, lacking 4 pairs of metal...
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Other decoration, ff. 204: Eighteen large white-vine (bianchi girariin Italian) illuminated initials (fols. 2v, 23v, 25r, 36r, 52v, 54r, 69r, 71r, 91r, 103v, 125v, 139r, 154r, 173r, 183v, 187r, 188r and 196v), first and last leaves in facsimile.
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Number of scribes, ff. 204: One.
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Script, ff. 204: Humanistic Minuscule.
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Layout, ff. 204: Collation: i#^9+1# [of 10, lacking i, replaced with a facsimile leaf ], ii–vii#^10#, viii#^9+1# [of 10, blank x canceled, replaced with a substitute blank], ix–xix#^10#, xx#^3+1# [of 4, lacking iv, replaced with a facsimile leaf ], with horizontal catchwords within radiating flourishes; vertical ruling in blind, horizontal ruling not visible, 33 lines, written-space 225 mm. by...
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Manuscript note: The Lilly manuscript lacks its first and last leaves, which may have had a patron’s arms or a scribe’s colophon, now replaced in skillful facsimile.
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Bibliography: Tenneroni 1894, p. 64; De Ricci 1935, p. 652; Kristeller 1990, p. 220.
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ff. 204: Latin.
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Incipit, ff 1r-89v: inveniri levatio, FINIS / DEO GRATIAS / AMEN.
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Explicit, ff 1r-89v: Cum defensionum laboribu...summam eruditionem graeci.
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Incipit, Ff. 91r-172v.: perreximus omnes, Finis / Deo Gratias / Amen.
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Explicit, Ff. 91r-172v.: Non eram nescius Brute.
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Incipit, Ff. 173r-204v.: de privatis magistratibusve. . . dicis expecto, FINIS / DEO GRATIAS / AMEN.
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Explicit, Ff. 173r-204v.: Lucus quidem ille & haec.
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ff. 204: Xavier Binnebeke, for his kind report on the scribe.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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