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Treatise on the part of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations.
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 a humanistic script by a single hand.
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, red, and green (f. 3r, f. 4v); rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.
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Ms. codex.
Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
Zacour-Hirsch treats full incipit as title and attributes the manuscript to Petrus Pandoni, a name for which there is a reference in the entry for Porcellius in Cosenza's Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists, 1962.
Incipit: Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris ortographia incipit. Lege feliciter. Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir...
Explicit: Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari. Porcelii poete clarissimi et oratoris ortografia explicit.
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.
Latin
Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino, (signature, f. 3r, 83v, 85v).
Sold by Immelen, 1952.
Italy
Written in Italy on 1 February 1460 (f. 4v).
Latin
Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino,
Sold by Immelen, 1952.
Treatise on the part of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations.
Ms. codex.
Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
Zacour-Hirsch treats full incipit as title and attributes the manuscript to Petrus Pandoni, a name for which there is a reference in the entry for Porcellius in Cosenza's Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists, 1962.
Incipit: Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris ortographia incipit. Lege feliciter. Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir...
Explicit: Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari. Porcelii poete clarissimi et oratoris ortografia explicit.
Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, red, and green (f. 3r, f. 4v); 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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