Part 1: ff. ii-iii, 1-12

Description: - Parchment - 280 x 220 mm - 49 long lines ruled in ink.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: 2- to 7-line initials in red with purple pen flourishing.

Notes: ff. ii-iii blank but part of first quire; traces of erased text in the same layout as rest of quire remain visible.




Text 1: ff. 1-12

Author: Cicero (Quintus Tullius Cicero)

Title: Cato maior vel de senectute Paradoxa

Language(s): Latin

Notes: 4 Latin verses and notes in later hands, f. 12v. 

Image 1: f. i Medieval binding reinforcement from a missal; bookplate of J. P. R. Lyell.

Image 2: f. ii verso Washed text.

Image 3: f. 1 Quire and leaf signature "a iiii" continued from previous washed leaves; initials with flourishing.

Image 4: f. 5 Decorative penwork on text; notes in margins.

Image 5: f. 6v Catchword within frame; marginal notes, some in capitals; an eye as a nota mark.

Image 6: f. 9v Flourished initial.


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Part 2: Binding reinforcement

Description: - Parchment - 280 x 220 mm - Ruled in ink.

Country: Italy (?)

Assigned Date: s. XIV (?)

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in red.




Text 1: Binding reinforcement

Title: Liturgy

Language(s): Latin

Status of text: Visible text on recto and verso of fragment measuring 75 x 280 mm.