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Brief treatise by Porcelio Pandone addressed to Cicco Simonetta, a statesman in the ducal chancery of Milan, on the origin and use of money in antiquity (f. 3r-10v), followed by a longer unidentified treatise on the subdivision of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations (f. 12r-83r), attributed here to Pandone. The preface of the first treatise (f. 3r-4v), here titled De sextertio et talento (De sestertio et talento), differs from the edition printed in 1459 (with the title Opusculum aureum de talento) in having a second sentence that refers to the Orthographia and being dated 1460 rather than 1459.
Support: paper; Extent: 86 leaves : 167 x 117 (92 x 70) mm bound to 167 x 120 mm; Foliation: Paper, 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 17 long lines; ruled in ink.
Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
One four-line and two three-line iIlluminated white vine-stem initials in gold on blue, red, and green grounds (f. 3r, 4v, 12r) with borders on the left margin; rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.
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Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
Ms. codex.
Incipit/explicit of first work: Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir Cicce Pollio tradidisti (f. 3r) ... Tu humanissime mi Pollio cum meliora inveneris poetae tuo Porcelio impartiare (f. 10v).
Incipit/explicit of second work: Orthographiam ex quatuor grammaticae partibus unam esse nemo inficiatur (f. 12r) ... Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari (f. 83r).
1. f.3r-10v: De talento et sextertio / Porcelius -- 2. f.12r-83r: Ortographia.
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
Written in Italy on 1 February 1460 (f. 4v).
Contemporary vellum; small fragments of an earlier manuscript leaf with Latin text in Gothic rotunda script are adhered around the sewing supports to strengthen the spine.
Latin
Sold by Ernesto Immelen (Rome), 1952.
Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino, (signature, f. 3r, 83v, 85v).
Italy
Written in Italy on 1 February 1460 (f. 4v).
Latin
Sold by Ernesto Immelen
Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino,
Brief treatise by Porcelio Pandone addressed to Cicco Simonetta, a statesman in the ducal chancery of Milan, on the origin and use of money in antiquity (f. 3r-10v), followed by a longer unidentified treatise on the subdivision of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations (f. 12r-83r), attributed here to Pandone. The preface of the first treatise (f. 3r-4v), here titled De sextertio et talento (De sestertio et talento), differs from the edition printed in 1459 (with the title Opusculum aureum de talento) in having a second sentence that refers to the Orthographia and being dated 1460 rather than 1459.
Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
Ms. codex.
Incipit/explicit of first work: Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir Cicce Pollio tradidisti (f. 3r) ... Tu humanissime mi Pollio cum meliora inveneris poetae tuo Porcelio impartiare (f. 10v).
Incipit/explicit of second work: Orthographiam ex quatuor grammaticae partibus unam esse nemo inficiatur (f. 12r) ... Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari (f. 83r).
1. f.3r-10v: De talento et sextertio / Porcelius -- 2. f.12r-83r: Ortographia.
Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
One four-line and two three-line iIlluminated white vine-stem initials in gold on blue, red, and green grounds (f. 3r, 4v, 12r) with borders on the left margin; rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.
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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