Ms. codex.
Title devised and romanized by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy around the year 1480, possibly by the scribe Nicholas della Torre (see 1940 correspondance from Kirsopp Lake to owner Herbert Reichner, laid-in).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: According Bond and Faye, the manuscript was "described in [a] catalogue of an Italian family of Messina as once belonging to Lascaris," although the source of this assertion is unknown. Later owned by Gladys Freeman, from whom it was acquired by George Plimpton (New York, NY), his MS 7 (Census 2:1755), and passed to Herbert Reichner.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Herbert Reichner in 1943.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 2, 1755
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 212
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Tietisyllabe...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 56 + i (first and last are free flyleaves conjugate with pastedowns, and final flyleaf is also a text page); i + 1-7⁸ + i ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right recto each quire, numbers first flyleaf as 1 and final flyleaf as 58, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic Greek bookhand, possibly the hand of Nicholas della Torre, in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line red capitals throughout, blank space for initial left unfilled on fol. 1.
Binding: Original blind-stamped leather over boards, interlace blindstamps, lacking clasp, partially rebacked, pachment pastdowns conjugate with front and rear flyleaves, housed in green cloth clamshell box, label on spine (author misidentified): "Constantinus/ Lascaris/ Grammar" and "MS. Q. Med. 113."
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