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Geographical work describing the populated areas of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia as known to the historian and geographer Strabo. Many leaves of the manuscript are palimpsests, the parchment having been formerly used for legal documents and washed for re-use. The earlier texts are occasionally faintly visible running perpendicular to the Mela text.
Support: parchment; Extent: 70 leaves : 169 x 111 (116 x 68) mm. bound to 178 x 124 mm; Foliation: Parchment, 70 + ii; [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (19th-century foliation with larger numbers, also in pencil, also upper right recto, skips f. 38 and f. 50; this earlier foliation and the note in pencil at the upper margin of the first page are both mentioned in the 1892 catalog of the Boncompagni library).
Written in 23-24 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Written in a rounded northern Italian humanistic script.
1 6-line initial in blue with red acanthus-leaf decoration, ornamental frame, and extensions (f. 1r); 15 2- or 3-line initials in either red or blue; 5 of the red initials have penwork in black (f. 5r, 37v, 42r, 55r, 60r); marginal notations, mostly place names, in red or blue; rubrics 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.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
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.
Italy
Possibly written in northern Italy, before 1450 (date of ownership inscription, f. 70v); probably written between 1440 and 1450.
15th-century vellum over pasteboards.
Latin
Formerly owned by Antonio de Bonius (?), 1450 (inscription, f. 70v).
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 356 (306)).
Appears in J. Halle Antiquariat's cat. 50 (1914), no. 20.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Italy
Possibly written in northern Italy, before 1450 (date of ownership inscription, f. 70v); probably written between 1440 and 1450.
Latin
Formerly owned by Antonio de Bonius
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome
Appears in J. Halle Antiquariat's cat. 50
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Geographical work describing the populated areas of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia as known to the historian and geographer Strabo. Many leaves of the manuscript are palimpsests, the parchment having been formerly used for legal documents and washed for re-use. The earlier texts are occasionally faintly visible running perpendicular to the Mela text.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Written in a rounded northern Italian humanistic script.
1 6-line initial in blue with red acanthus-leaf decoration, ornamental frame, and extensions (f. 1r); 15 2- or 3-line initials in either red or blue; 5 of the red initials have penwork in black (f. 5r, 37v, 42r, 55r, 60r); marginal notations, mostly place names, in red or blue; rubrics 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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