Epistolae

Title : Epistolae

Author : Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius (Saint Jerome)
Date : 1476
Dimensions : 36,0 x 27,0 x 9,0 cm

The volume contains two books tied together in 15th century manuscript covers over vellum, with leather spine. Big water stain is present on the middle of the pages and fades to the center of the volume, with two columns on every page, a lot of hand-written red initials and a big initial drawing on the first page of the second book. It contains 345 leaves. Two white leaves are missing at the end of the first book, probably used on the inner sides of the covers, one blank leaf an the beginning of the volume, one blank leaf at the end with a big filigree filling it. This is a great copy of over 530 years old.

The printer is Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, and it was printed in Venice, the date showing 22 of january.

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The filigree on the written pages :

Biblioteca Academiei Romane Filiala Cluj-Napoca ( cota inc.53 ) (Romanian Academy Library in Cluj-Napoca) owns one copy of this book.

The same book with only 163 leaves valued at 175 000 USD :

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