Papa, Antonio

1 volume The binding is very well preserved and there is a similar example from the Erf?rt Town Library which is reproduced by Loubier Der Bucheinband, 1926. Fig. 10 on page 9.

Avicenna (980-1036)

1 volume On paper; watermarks: 1. Balance, with straight scales, in quires 1-5, similar but not identical to watermarks produced between 1420 and 1480 in Northern Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Austria (see Briquet no. 2400, and Piccard, no. J 340: Udine, 1429); 2. Trimontium in quire 6, unidentified.74 leaves, plus single paper flyleaves and conjoint pastedowns at the beginning and the end; folios 42v, 43, 60 and 74 blank; old pagination '1-73' in black ink on folios 1r-73, 18th [?] century; modern foliation '1-74' in pencil in upper right corner of rectos. 215 x 141 mm; written space 135 x 89 mm, blind ruled with ruling board on versos for single vertical bounding lines and 28 horizontal/written lines (above top line) to the column.Collation: 1-612, 72; catchwords at centre of the lower margin on the verso of the last leaf in quires 1-4 and 6, all with penwork decoration; quire signatures 'a1-a6'-'g1' in lower right corner of the recto of leaves in the first half of each quire.Secundo folio: Dicitur absinthii stomacum.Written in regular and neat round Gothic bookhand [Textualis rotunda], with some humanistic features, such as tall minuscule 's' at the beginning of words, Italy, dated 1478 on f. 73v.Marginal notabilia to Macer's text seemingly supplied by a different scribe in cursive Gothic hand and lighter brown ink; the same hand supplied a 2-verse addition at the bottom of f. 7v.Five-line initial in blue with penwork decoration in red on f. 1r; the blue overpainted and a ground of gold and penwork decoration in red, blue and light blue supplied in the late 19th or early 20th century. Book initials (respectively 6 and 5 lines high) in blue or red at the beginning of texts on folios 44r and 61r; chapter initial in blue (6 lines high) in foliate design extending into the lower margin on f. 45r; chapter initials (2-3 lines high) in alternating red and blue throughout, with one in red and blue on f. 1v, some with contrasting penwork decoration and all accompanied by small guide letters in black at the left of their allocated space.Paragraph marks in red for captions and marginal notabilia throughout Macer's text; verse capitals touched in yellow on folios 1r-12v; capitals touched in red on folios 41v-42r, 44v-59v; paragraph marks in red and capitals touched in red in captions on folios 61r-73r. Binding: Parchment over pasteboards, parchment painted on covers to make it resemble a half parchment binding, wanting spine, showing spineguard on paper from a German newspaper, 20th century.

Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum

Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.

1 volume 1 volume: 190mm x 120mm with marbled boards, backed with brown leather. Binding exposed.

Recipe book of Standon Rectory, Staffordshire

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Avicenna (980-1036)

Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum

Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.

Recipe book of Standon Rectory, Staffordshire

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Avicenna (980-1036)

Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum

Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.

Recipe book of Standon Rectory, Staffordshire

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