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Dyalogus creaturaru[m] optime moralizatus. omni materie morali iocu[n]do mo[do] applicabil[is]: ad laude[m] dei [et] edificatione[m] ho[m]i[nu]m Incipit feliciter

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Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Cf. ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.6 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18.4 x 11.5 cm. Includes 122 woodcut illustrations and a woodcut initial and border on leaf a2r. Gerard Leeu's device B on leaf m6r. Signatures: pi⁶ 2pi⁴ a-l⁸ m⁶ (pi1, a1 blank). Imperfect: blank leaf pi1 lacking. Binding error: gatherings pi and 2pi bound at end after gathering m. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: red morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.
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Date
[3 June 1480]
Call number
103180
Provenance
Contemporary marginal ms. annotations. Bookplate on front pastedown: From the library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith. Bookplate on front pastedown: Ex libris Ross Winans.
Dimensions
29 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Nicolaus, (-1368,)
Mayno, (approximately 1445-1493,)
Leeu, Gerard, (1834-1896,)
Morris, William, (1850-1912,)
Winans, Ross, (1799-1883,)
Bedford, Francis,
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