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211x150 mm. 8 unnumbered leaves, of which the last is a blank. Sewn but unbound, preserved in a modern cloth slipcase. On the first leaf recto is the following title written by a later hand: "Carmina Croti ad Sanvitalem sup[er] laubibus Iulij Cesaris Pompei & alior[um] proceru[m] Romanor[um] pulcherrima ac videnda". The rest of the manuscript is written by a single, very elegant early 16th-century hand. On the first leaf verso is the dedication "Bartholmaeus Crotus ad Hieronymum Sanvitalem Salae Principem", followed by four verses and a calligraphic ornament. Watermark: lily with double trefoil and the letter 'M' below. Slightly uniformly browned (more strongly on the first and last leaf), paper loss of about 4x2 mm to the outer margin of all leaves not affecting the text, another loss to the outer upper corner of the first leaf not affecting the text.This is an apparently unpublished and unknown collection of short epigrams dedicated to Girolamo I Sanvitale, Count of Sala, son of Niccolò Maria… Leer más