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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger from first printed edition.
Collation: Paper with 2 parchment bifolia, 95; 1¹²(-1) 2-8¹²; inner and outer bifolia of first gathering parchment, with
first leaf now missing; [1-190 (151-167 blank)], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners 1-55, upper right recto
57-185; modern signatures in pencil, 1-8, lower left first recto.
Layout: Written in 48 long lines, with vertical bounding lines in ink (text); most tables in landscape orientation, with
18 columns, with double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script by Johannes de Kuppferberg (p. 33).
Decoration: Tables in black and red ink (p. 35-150, 168-185); rubrication, underlining, and paragraph numbers in text in
red ink, with spaces left for initials 3 to 6 lines in height (p. 1-33).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Balance 2454 (Wiener Neustadt, 1476).
Binding: Modern mottled calf with paste paper endpapers, marbled edges, and 19th-century gilt spine laid down.
Origin: Written in Austria or Hungary, circa 1476 (based on watermark).
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