| Description | Bifolium (numbered 208 and 217) from a 10ff quire of a tract on confession
Chapter begins f 208 v: 'Nunc ultimo placet tractatione de fructibus sanctissime confessionis ,,,'
Each 'page' 170 x 130 mm (written area 120 x 85 mm)
Written in central Italy in a neat and clear hand; with two marginal notes ( page 217) written in a less formal hand
Description from the Swiss booksellers leaflet which accompanies the item:
'Pair of leaves from an incomplete and mutilated manuscript of moral tracts in Latien, wirtten c 1450 in Northern Italy or in the Tessin, San Nazzaro on Lago Maggiore
The script is a clear and fluent informal 'anticha corsiva' with numerous abbreviations. There were no decorations apart from a dozen small initials not noteworthy. The fine goat vellum, originally ruled nearly throughout for a two-column book, was used eventually for the present text. The folios are added by an inexperienced, much later hand.' |