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Contains 24 Results:

One leaf from Titus Livius, Historiae (Book 3.4-7). , Late fourteenth to fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitextualis script. Removed from the binding of a book.Provenance: Received President White Library, 1891. Lost description by M. Malamud, n.d. Formerly folder u.39.

Dates: Late fourteenth to fifteenth century.

One leaf possibly from an illuminated Psalter including Psalm 19 and decorative line fillers., Late fourteenth to early fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Northern Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus). Decorated initials in red, blue, and gold, and unusually ornate line fillers in red, blue and gold. Provenance: From the Ferrini collection. Formerly folder 65.

Dates: Late fourteenth to early fifteenth century.

One bifolium from statute book of a city in Northern Italy, possibly Lucca. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Southern Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script. First folio contains a few late and illegible scrawls and the words “No. 114. The second folio (recto and verso) is a fragment of a law-book/ body of statutes, probably from Lucca. There is some marginal glossing, and the verso contains a red initial and rubric that reads: “viij. De termino instantie cause principalis”.Provenance: Brought in Lucca, Italy, by...
Dates: Fifteenth century.

One bifolium probably from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, from England. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Textualis Currens script with Secretary influences, highly abbreviated. Containing Tractatus Philosophus. Lower and upper part of leaves have been damaged, some partial stains, and some rubbing of text on inner folios. Provenance: Gift of George Tyler, ’28. Formerly folder 67.

Dates: Fifteenth century.