Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Enea Vico da Parma (b. 1523, d. 1567), drawings of coins (12 per page) of Roman Emperors [The Twelve Caesars], organised according to emperor; each emperor has his own frontispiece. Decoration: Original drawings in black ink used for engravings in Vico’s Le imagini con t...
Notes on a lecture by Magister Lucha Ripa on Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae
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Contents: ff. 1r-36r: Notes on a lecture by Magister Lucha Ripa on Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae, entitled ‘Sub Magistro Lucha Ripa, Honorato Gramaticho, publice Ferrariae legente, Claudiani de Raptu Proserpinae, Interpretatio’. f. 1*recto: An untranscribed note.
This manuscript contains Books 1-6 of the Historia Langobardorum (The History of the Lombards) by Paul the Deacon. The rest of the text survives in another manuscript, Florence, BR, 2795, to which this manuscript was originally joined. Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardo...
Giovanni Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de nominibus maris liber
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Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Giovanni Boccaccio [Johannis Boccacii de Certaldo], De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de nominibus maris liber.
ff. 2r–70v: Bernard Ayglier, Speculum monachorum. Decoration: 4 marginal sketches in brown ink of subjects relating to the adjacent texts (ff. 16v, 17r, 17v, 18r). Initials in brown ink with penwork decoration in the same colour, two historiated: crucifixion (f. 36r), dragon and gate (f. 47r).
An anonymous compendium dealing mostly with meteorology and quoting alchemical texts. The same collection is found in a 15th-century manuscript at University College London, Archives, MS Lat/29. Contents: ff. 1r-57v: An anonymous compendium of natural philosophy ('Breve ac perutile philosophie...