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A leaf from Cicero, De inventione, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy (perhaps Florence), 15th century (second half)]
c. 220 × 158 mm, preserving the prickings at the fore-edge, ruled in drypoint for 28 lines, written above top line in Humanistic minuscule, the text comprising book II, paragraphs 122–26 (“haberet in testamento ita scripxit [sic] … interdum acriter ad iudicem ipsum”), decorated with one-line initials alternately red or blue; recovered from use as an archival wrapper, with consequent creasing and a two-line isncription in 17th(?)-century script in one margin.
Provenance
Serendipity Auctions, San Francisco; two leaves, acquired by:
Phillip Pirages: his Catalogue 47, 2002, no. 164, with his stock number and price in the lower margin in pencil, “ST8611d” and “550–” encircled; the other was later Bloomsbury Auctions, 4 December 2018, lot 27.
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