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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![67 68 69 70 71 72 73 Justinus. Epitoma in Trogi Pompei historias, Manuscript on vellum, 114 Ul., long lines, 29 to a page ; the first page decorated with a large initial finely painted in gold and colours, consisting of vine ornamentation adorned with a putto and birds, at the foot of the page a border of similar work with a coat-of-arms (rubbed), smaller initials in blue, headings in red, citron morocco, the corners ornamented with flowers, and inside dentelles of a flower pattern 4to. [ITALIAN] XV CENT. Juvenalis. Satyrae, Manuscript on vellum, 50 Ul., long lines, 26 to a page, first leaf damaged, incomplete, modern vellum, guilt 8vo. LATE XV CENT. Juvenalis. Satyrae, Manuscript on vellum, 64 Il. (841m. by 5in.), long lines, 26 to a page, first page of text in a painted border with two grotesque figures, the text neatly written in italics, imperfect calf, gilt back 8vo. circa 1500 Juvenalis et Persius. Satyrae, Manuscript on paper, 98 UL., long lines, 24 to a page, initials in red, wormed and stained, boards 4to. XV CENT Juvenalis et Persius. Satyrae, Manuscript on paper (one leaf on vellum), 88 ll., long lines, numerous MS. notes in the margins and some leaves badly stained, half vellum 8vo. LATE XV CENT. Lexicon (Latin), Manuscript on vellum, 36 Il. (8in. by 6in.), double columns, 37 lines to a page, ornamental pen-work initial, . others in red and blue, old oak boards covered with leather 8vo. XV CENT. Livius (T.) Hisrorniarum Lipri, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [IraLIaAN, xvth CENT.], 218 leaves (134in. by 94in.), written in neat humanistic roman characters, 35 long lines to a page, title headings written in red, large ornamental initial at beginning, and borders decorated in the typical fashion of interlaced white vine stems and leaves on a ground of red, green and blue illu- minated in part with burnished bold lines and dots, at foot a coat-of-arms within a laurel wreath, other smaller initials (without borders) occur in similar style, original Venetian binding of oak boards covered brown morocco, blind tooled with an elaborate design of Arabic knots (slightly damaged by worms) _ dated at end, 1425](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31654290_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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