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Incipit liber magistri Egidii De pulsibus metrice compositus

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Description
Gilles de Corbeil's De pulsibus with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgines and edited by Venatius Mutius. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.8 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 14.2 x 9.1 cm. Signatures: [a-c⁸ d-g⁶]. Modern binding using a vellum manuscript leaf from an antiphonal as a wrapper.
Type
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Date
1484
Call number
99934
Creator
Gilles (active 1200)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Contemporary ms. annotations on page [95] titled "Co[m]plexionis sa[n]guinis".
Dimensions
22 cm (4to)
Associated people
Gentilis Fulginas, (-1348,)
Avenantius, (active 15th century-16th century,)
Cerdonis, Matthaeus, (active 1482-1487,)
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