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This manuscript contains the Oratio ad ducem Pasqualem Malapetrum of Laurus de Papazolis (Lauro Palazzolo), an address of greeting to the doge on the occasion of his visit to the faculty of law at Padua University, with references to Greek and Roman history. The author was a professor of canon and civil law at the university. The manuscript is written on parchment with an illuminated initial and the arms of the doge on the opening page. Marginal notes in red are proper names mentioned or alluded to in the text.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+11+ii; 220 x 144 mm bound to 225 x 150 mm; Foliation: Number 8 appears in the center of the upper margin of folio 9r in modern pencil; Collation: 1 (11, +1)
Single column of twenty-six lines; frame-ruled in lead with horizontal lines in ink; written area: 145 x 80 mm
Humanistic
Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero on flanked by letters P and M in red, green, blue, yellow and gold leaf (fol. 2r); one six-line illuminated initial in pink and green on gold ground (fol. 2r); names mentioned in the oration are noted in the margins in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Padua
1457
Nineteenth-century leather binding with gilt tooling and spine title Palozio, by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (London); paper flyleaves
Latin
Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero (r. 1457-1462) flanked by letters P and M in lower margin of opening page (fol. 2r); formerly owned by Dean P. Lockwood (Haverford College)
Padua
1457
Latin
Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero
This manuscript contains the Oratio ad ducem Pasqualem Malapetrum of Laurus de Papazolis (Lauro Palazzolo), an address of greeting to the doge on the occasion of his visit to the faculty of law at Padua University, with references to Greek and Roman history. The author was a professor of canon and civil law at the university. The manuscript is written on parchment with an illuminated initial and the arms of the doge on the opening page. Marginal notes in red are proper names mentioned or alluded to in the text.
Humanistic
Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero on flanked by letters P and M in red, green, blue, yellow and gold leaf (fol. 2r); one six-line illuminated initial in pink and green on gold ground (fol. 2r); names mentioned in the oration are noted in the margins in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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