Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
De quattuor virtutibus in fact by Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara).
The four fictitious orations ascribed to Demosthenes, Aeschines, Demades, and Philippus, are probably by Petrus Marcellus, bishop of Ceneda; see Remigio Sabbadini in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, N.S. 30 (1915), 241 ff. (GW 8251)
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' type 1:ca.102G.
Polain dates about 1474, CIBN as about 1470-73.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁶(6+1)]: 21 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14 cm.
PML copy with bifolia [1]/4.5 and [1]/3.6 exchanged.
De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, sive De formula honestae vitae. Add: De moribus. Demosthenes (Pseudo-) Orationes duae de Alexandro Magno habitae in senatu Atheniensi; (Pseudo-) Aeschines: Exhortatio ad Athenienses; (Pseudo-) Demades: Dehortatio adversus exhortationem Aeschinis; (Pseudo-) Philippus Rex Macedonum: Epistola ad Aristotelem (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Att. IX.3.5); Pseudo- Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris; Proverbia; Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius [II 484-93].
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures: y, z, and [et]. Unidentified modern notations: "B1" and "Huys" (leaf [1]/1r at lower gutter).