Latin notes with extracts from Greek and Latin authors, including Philostratus, Lucian, Aeschines, Cicero and Theocritus. Dated (f 41r) 'In novembri 1507'. ff 74v-75r, containing Sophocles, Ajax 646-47, in the hand of Marco Musuro, identified by Canart 1974, p. 573.
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
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The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
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Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.