Manuscript on paper of Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 B.C.), Stichus, in an Italian adaptation in verse.
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Binding: Loose grey paper cover., No decoration. There are numerous pointing hands with exaggeratedly long forefingers, generally accompanied by the name of a character., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva., and Written in campo aperto in one narrow column of mostly seven 6-line strophes on the page.
Manuscript on paper of a selection of sermons by Agostino della Scarperia.
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Binding: sewn on, no covers., ff. 26-32 blank, not digitized., Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermones ad fratres in heremo, Italian translation of a small selection of the sermons by Agostino da Scarperia (c. 1320-end of the 14th century). Our manuscript contains the first eight sermons only., and Script: copied by a single hand in Italian Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca); the final lines, on the singleton f. 25, are in a more rapid hand. There is space for 3-line initials (a 4-line initial on f. 1r) at the opening of the sermons, but these have not been executed. The headings open with a decorative majuscule S(ermone). Otherwise the manuscript is undecorated.
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours. With prayers in Italian. Probably made for a female member of the Augustinian order.
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Binding: Original Italian brown cloth over wooden boards, sewn onto three double leather thongs; the cloth is embroidered with silver thread to a design of stars, squares and maltese crosses. Gilt and gauffered edges., Headings in red. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue; 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions alternately in red and blue, the penwork in the contrasting colour (the normal type of initials throughout the manuscript); 3-line flourished KL ligatures in art. 1; 5-line litterae duplices or initials in the style of litterae duplices with developed penwork at the opening of the various Hours in art. 2; 6-line ditto in art. 3; a 4-line flourished initial at the opening of the Mass of the Virgin in art. 5. All initials are half inset., and Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda).
Subject (Name):
Augustinians and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents.
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Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter.
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
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Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Manuscript on paper of Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, a comedy in Italian by Alessandro Donzellini.
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Binding: limp parchment binding., Comedy in Italian about the love affairs of various young men and women, with a complicated plot, changes of names, disguises, etc. Donzelli's work was printed in 1585 in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermartelli, but the present version, dated thirteen years earlier and purportedly by an “Afflitto Accademico Stordito” (an Accademia degli Storditi existed in Bologna in the sixteenth century), differs in many respects from the printed text., and Script: copied, probably by one hand, in Humanistica Cursiva in various degrees of rapidity.
Manuscript on paper of Francesco Mercati da Bibbiena, Il Sensale. Commedia, with the musical Intermezzi dealing with the Ages of the World by Tommaso Soderini. With a survey of the characters of the play.
Description:
Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment., Mis-foliated; no folio 31., Script: one scribe, writing a sloping cursive Humanistic script., and Some outer or upper margins (ff. 12, 27), and on f. 1 the outer lower corner, are defective, causing the loss of small text parts. The leaves are stained (ff. 20-21 especially), and the paper is badly damaged by the corrosive ink.