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EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUS. [Breviarium historiae Romanae.] manuscript in latin, written in humanistic and semi-Gothic book hands by at least 2 scribes, 29-32 lines, brown and black inks, on vellum (leaves 1-10) and laid paper with basilisk watermark (11-end). Initials in blue and red. 55 leaves, complete. 235x165 mm, contemporary vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; some dampstaining and minor marginal worming. Italy, later 15th century
Inscription following explicit on 54v: "Hic liber est mei iulii de castello de a lan[n]o et amicorum meorum, et non aliorum." 20-line Latin poem in another hand on 55r (Dies v[es]tros ne perdatis / Vanas curas deponatis / Et cor mundu[m] habeatis [etc.]).
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