Part 1: ff. 1-170

Description: - Parchment - 260 x 170 mm - 38 long lines; vertical rules full length in lead, horizontal in ink.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Figurative Decoration: Numerous geometrical figures in margins.

Other Decoration: 15 initials in gold on painted bases of combinations of blue, red, and green; the first initial with a floral and foliate border along upper and left margins; 2-line initials in blue; titles, paraph marks, and running headlines in red.

Notes: Foliated 1-170 but the folio after f. 133 is not numbered; last folio is back pastedown.




Text 1: ff. 2-165v

Author: Euclid (Euclides)

Title: Elementa mathematica in libros XV

Language(s): Latin

Notes: ff. 1r-v and 166-70 blank. 

Image 1: f. 2 Gold initials; coat of arms; geometrical diagrams.

Image 2: ff. 17v-18 Gold initials; geometrical diagrams.

Image 3: ff. 22v-23 Geometrical designs.

Image 4: f. 49 Two sizes of script: text and commentary; gold initials.

Image 5: f. 68v Gold initials.

Image 6: f. 166 Vertical rules full length in lead, horizontal rules in ink; single prick mark in outer lower margin, ca. 60 mm from bottom

Image 7: Binding Front cover.