(Q5279)
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Piccolomini, Giovanni d'Andrea di Nanni Todeschini, 1475-1537
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Italy--Prophecies--Early works to 1800
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[1523?]
16. century
1523Gregorian
1523Gregorian
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Extent: 4 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 207 x 146 (160 x 97) mm bound to 212 x 150 mm
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Ms. codex.
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Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1523.
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Title from parenthetical incipit (f. 1r).
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Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 4 + i (modern paper); 1⁴; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; top margin of f. 1r possibly signed g.
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Layout: Written in 20 long lines; text block outlined in lead.
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Binding: Modern boards.
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Decoration: Two pen and ink drawings: hand extending from clouds with pointing finger (f. 4r); figure on horseback with lion in foreground, tiara and crowns of the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France in the background, rider labeled Julius cardinalis (Giulio de' Medici) and lion labeled Leo (Pope Leo), and legend beneath, "Dolus: dolosui insequitur" (f. 4v).
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive book script by a single hand, with some contemporary notes in a second hand.
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Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1959.
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28 August 2023
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28 August 2023
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