manuscripttext Florence, [1425-1475] ita Ms. Codex. Illustrated composite, palimpsested manuscript on parchment. Layout: Single column of varying number of lines. Ruled in blind and plummet. Script: Mercantesca script. Decoration: Red ink headings, Lombard initials supplied in red throughout, many with blue penwork flourishes. Some capital letters touched with yellow. Sizteen drawings in color depicting celestial spheres, the zodiac, the eclipses, the climate and wind directions, a T-O map, and a mappamundi. Text: This miscellany contains fifty-eight texts including Gregorio Dati (1362-1463), La sfera (fols. 28r-41v). Binding: Nineteenth-century calf over pasteboards. Covers within order of gilt fillet and floral frieze in bild, gilt foliate cornerpieces. Spine with five raised bands underlined with gilt fillets, title lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. In a quarter-calf case with title "Rime e prose di diversi autori m.s. vell" in gold. Richard Heber (1773-1833). Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). Katharine, John, Thomas and Alan Fenwick, Cheltenham (1872-1946). Lionel and Philip Robinson, booksellers. Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988), bookseller. Schoyen Collection, MS 900. Deacessioned in December 2010. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/MedievalRen.59878