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Urb2

Library: Vatican City - BAV

Shelfmark: Urb. lat. 1754

Physical Description

Support: parchment

Height: 29 cm

Date: 1481 (prev. text dated 5 Sept)

Folia: 99r-122v

Lines per page: 24

Decoration

Text Script: humanistic cursive

Diagrams: yes

Maps: yes

Illumination: yes

White Vine Work: yes

Relative Quality: super-deluxe but unfinished

Other Decoration: extended whitevine border f1, unfinished diagrams, incredible perspective "maps" (really vedute) showing possible Botticelli influence—but only for the first 4 openings of book IV

Editorial Status

Manuscript Status

This manuscript is not missing

This manuscript is not destroyed

Toponyms in this Manuscript

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