• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

text in a rectangle, presumably a catchword, at the bottom of Cr). Collation: Composite: Condition: Deco desc: red rubric; one blue initial with red penwork Dimensions: 345 x 235 mm Extent: 2 sheets Foliation: Hand desc: Italian littera hybrida Keywords:

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

initials, with wide acanthus-leaf borders burnished in gold, on three sides; many other smaller initials and decorations illuminated in red, blue, and gilt. Dimensions: 147 x 106 mm. Extent: 154 folios Foliation: Hand desc: Gothic hand Keywords: Layout: Library ref

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

Condition: water stains around the outer edges and prickings in the outer margins; edges untrimmed Deco desc: gold KL against blue and red ground with white tracery, placed at the head of each month; rubrics are red Dimensions: 208 x

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

P. Fiorentino, Florence 1492 lost a few mm. from its upper margin Deco desc: red rubrics; caps alternately red and blue Dimensions: 303 x 210 mm Extent: one folio Foliation: Hand desc: Italian littera gothica textualis Keywords: Layout: one col.

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

outer margins through its use as a book cover Deco desc: Red rubrics; red or black ink caps; one large blue initial with red penwork Dimensions: 400 x 248 mm Extent: one folio Foliation: foliation "cxxx" by the rubricator in

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

entries in the Calendar; red rubrics; small initials in gold, blue, green, magenta, and large ones in gold, green, red, and blue. Historiated initials (28 x 28mm.) in gold, red, blue, purple, dark brown and set in borders of foliage

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

Catchwords: Collation: Composite: Condition: horizontal crease with darkening through centre on verso Deco desc: Initials (2-line) alternately in red and blue, with contrasting penwork. Brown ink, ruled with pink ink. Dimensions: 35 cm.; written space 26 x 17 cm Extent:

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

French in style: black and blue entries in the Calendar; blue and red rubrics; caps and fill-ins in gold, red, blue. Nearly every side has a panel of leaf sprays, flowers, and fruit in gold, blue, red, and green. Each

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

are blank but for a contemporary title of contents on a fold. Prickings in the margins. Deco desc: gold and blue are used for special feasts in the Calendar, red ink for the tabulae. There are two drawings in ink

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

in the Calendar; red rubrics; caps in red, or blue, or red, blue, and gold with white tracery and marginal leaf sprays; panel borders with leaves and flowers in gold, blue, green, and red on four sides of each folio

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

Iason Denores del Mondo et della Sphera, Paulo Meietto, Padua 1582. Deco desc: red rubrics, caps red or red, and blue. Dimensions: 335 x 235 mm Extent: one folio which has lost a few mm. of its outer margins Foliation:

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

a folio of much greater dimensions. Deco desc: red rubrics and one historiated initial of Paul portrayed full length in blue, red, black, and yellow inks. Dimensions: now 148 x 148 mm Extent: one initial Foliation: Hand desc: Italian littera

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

of almost total loss of text Deco desc: Red rubrics; caps alternately red and blue; coloured initials (from 45 x 45 to 25 x 25mm.) in blue, red, yellow, green on 24v., 75v., 85v., 100v., 106r., 114v., 126r., 129r. The

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

initials (30 x 30mm.) in gold, blue, red with white tracery. Nearly all the outer margins have illuminated panels (105 x 35mm.) of flowers, fruit, acanthus leaves, birds, insects, grotesques, coloured green, gold, blue, red, white, mauve, yellow. Fourteen large

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

(45 x 45 mm.) in central Italian style, being gold interlaced with branches coloured green, white, maroon, on a dark blue ground with yellow dots arranged in triangular groups of three (1r., 2r., 17v., 37v.); a marginal panel (82 x

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

Worm-holes in 1-8, 177-204 without loss of text. Deco desc: red and orange rubrics; initials alternately blue, with red penwork and red, with blue penwork to 18v., thence orange without penwork. Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm Extent: ii + 204

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

of several folios Deco desc: Italian in style: red rubrics; caps alternately red and blue; illuminated initials (100 x 98, 90 x 80mm.) in gold, blue, green, red, mauve, white on 7v., 17r., 24r., 27 29r. On 1r. is anhistoriated

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

trimmed; worm-holes in 1-20, 83-107 without loss of text. Deco desc: red rubrics; caps alternately red, with blue, or purple penwork and blue, with red penwork; red ink for running titles and names of characters. Dimensions: 298 x 200 mm

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

agree Collation: (12)1-3 (10)4 (12)5-7 (8)8 (12)9-12 (1)13 Composite: Condition: Edges trimmed Deco desc: rubrics red; initials blue, with red penwork, red, with blue penwork or plain red. Dimensions: 160 x 108 mm Extent: 139 folios Foliation: Hand desc: two

• Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini De Liberorum Educatione

contemporary with the script, has provided caps alternately red, and blue, some touched with gold; illuminated initials with simple marginal leaf and floral sprays in gold, green, mauve, red, and blue. The second style dates from the 16c. Nearly every