Identifier:

170/55.

Scope and content:

pp. 1-134: Brevis Historiae chronologicae a conditu orbis descriptio. lsagoge ad Chronologiam, Vetus est laudare artem quam factitas . . . [Christus nascitur] omnibus quaeso atque obtestor// (mutilated; notions of chronology and chronological summary from Genesis, through the Assyrians etc., to the Romans).

Acquisition information:

Written in the second half of the sixteenth century presumably in northern France. Belonged to the Celestines of Paris; p. 1 bottom, “Celestinorum parisiensium” (s. XVII-XVIII). Source and date of acquisition by UCLA unknown.

Physical description:

Paper, ff. i + pp. 134 + f. i; 223 × 150 (150 × 100) mm. Gatherings of 4 leaves. 29/33 long lines; frame ruled in ink. Hasty cursive script with some chancery influence; black ink. Initials in red at times on brown penwork. Title in bold red minuscule. Contemporary pagination in arabic numerals.

Contemporary binding in limp parchment.

Note:

Secundo folio: tempus est dimensum

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