(Q47696)
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Hecatomphila
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Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
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Girolamo, da Cremona, active 1467-1483
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1450-1500
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ca. 1460-1470
15. century
1460Gregorian
1470Gregorian
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Extent: 101 leaves, bound : vellum ; 12 cm.
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The names "Ioannes Baptista Tacchinus Vtriusque Iuris Doctor" and "Augustinus de G[?]lis utriusque iuris Doctor" are written in later hands on ff. 51r and 101v respectively.
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Produced in Northern Italy, probably Ferrara, to judge by the style of illumination and peculiarities of language.
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Script: Written in a humanist script in brown ink, 18 lines per page; written area 73 x 40 mm.
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The ms. is not in the apparatus of the critical edition by C. Grayson (Bari, 1974) and it appears to be at a distance from other witnesses to the text.
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Decoration: 1. Illuminated initial P and a floral border containing two roundels (a bird on a branch and a woman seated) and a scroll inscribed "Manus A Hieronim" (f. 1r). 2. Illuminated initials L and E (51v, 52r) surrounded by patterns of fine gold lines and flowers extending into the margins. 3. Alternating gold and blue headings for the speakers Pallimacro and Filarco in the Deifira...
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Binding: early binding in full brown morocco, the front and back tooled in gilt.
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In a tray case of full red morocco with raised bands, gilt, 14 cm.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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