Accession number:
MS M.745
Title:
Erotemata
Created:
Italy, 15th century.
Binding:
Limp vellum with ties (comprising a deed in Latin with some Italian interpolations referring to legal decisions at Macerata under the rule of Francesco Sforza (1433-1445) and Pope Eugene IV).
Description:
96 leaves (1 column, 17-19 lines), bound : vellum ; 160 x 120 mm
Provenance:
Davis and Orioli (catalogue 36, 1923, lot 10); sold Aug. 1926 to Wilfrid M. Voynich; purchased from Voynich in 1929.
Notes:
Ms. grammatical treatise; written in Italy in the 15th century.
The manuscript is a palimpsest; it is written over Biblical texts that can be dated to the 11th or 12th century.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Greek
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