[Miscellanea litteraria, historica, et scientifica] [microform] = [Classical, historical and scientific texts]. [13-- or 14--]

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[Miscellanea litteraria, historica, et scientifica] [microform] = [Classical, historical and scientific texts]. [13-- or 14--]

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Includes Paradoxa and Somnium Scipionis, by Cicero; De maganimitate, by Seneca; Epistola Domini, by Petrarch; Epistola Magistri Petri de Parma; Preambulum, sive, Introductio libri Lucani editum per Magistri Petrum de Parma; Prohemium ad Boetii de consolatione; Liber de mirabilibus Romae; and other unidentified texts. UCB 145 was originally part of this ms.; includes Prohemium Valerii Maximi, by Benvenutus de Imola; Prohemium Statii compilatum, by Petrus of Caneffigi; De nugis curialium, by Walter Map; and other texts. Codex composed of loose quires and folios; beginning and ending incomplete. For a thorough description (contents and physical composition), see Carlo Maria Monti, "Il codice Berkeley, Bancroft Library, f2MS AC13 C5," in Italia medioevale e umanistica, XII (1979), 396-411.

103 mss. leaves ; 296 x 213 (164-230 x 110-170) mm. bound to 302 x 219 mm.

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Map, Walter, active 1200

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