MS. Add. A. 2
Summary Catalogue no.: 28744
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Physical Description
Hand(s)
Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 820)
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander ii. 820
Geometric diagrams (e.g. fols 8r and 49v). A representational diagram on fol. 10r
- Type diagram
- Subject Geometric diagram with walled city and boat on water
Binding
Red leather on boards with blind tooling, brass bosses and fore-edge clasp fittings (15th century)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fol. 56v: '1452 (?) Visto; per mi Zohanne de Ipesoadan (?)'. For similar inscriptions, see MS. Canon. Misc. 486, MS. D'Orville 36, and MS. Laud Lat. 48; also Edinburgh, Nat. Lib. Scotland, MS. Adv. 18. 3. 15. Apparently to be read as Giovanni dei Pescadori: see Giuseppe Billanovich, 'Il testo di Livio', Italia medioevale e umanistica 32 (1989), 53-99 at 85 and n. 93.
'V. g. 51', 'Pº xix. f. 3', 'V. E. 6'
Bought for 6s. at Sotheby's 20-1 June 1860, lot. 245, among lots 'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'.
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-11-13: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)