18rv, “//opregato idio chemelalieui … e si lo mangiare bbono. Et cosi simalemente se luomo auesse//” f. Sono uia eschala disalire e montare al cielo …. Digli uitii et del uirtu capitulo primo, incipit, “Lagratia di dio et de le uirtudi. 1-17v, Incomincia una bella e sancta doctrina del beato fratre egidio terço compagno di sancto fancesco. Further study of its linguistic features would also be of interest. As it stands, complete in itself, the manuscript may, however, have once been part of a longer manuscript, possibly including the Fioretti of St. The Sayings is uncommon in North American collections there are no copies listed in Schoenberg Database in any recent transactions.

This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript includes a copy of one of the most influential early Franciscan texts, the Sayings of Blessed Giles of Assisi, who was an early and important follower of St. Bound in modern vellum over pasteboard, in excellent condition. 17rv, where there is also a hole, resulting in a loss of a few words of text at the bottom of the folio, fore-edge and lower edge damaged and uneven.

17v, quite dark with mold spots, lower margin, stained in the upper margins and top outer corner throughout, more extensive and darker stains in the lower margins, affecting the text on a few folios, although it remains legible throughout except for part of the last three lines on f. 18, frame ruled in ink with the vertical rules full-length (justification 155-154 x 100-97 mm.), written in a gothico-antiquo script in twenty-three long lines, guide letters visible within initials, majuscules in text filled with pale yellow, red rubrics, two-line alternately red and blue initials, f. 5-6, 14-15) which have traces of earlier script possible offset from parchment reinforcement strips, now removed, watermark, round letter ‘N’ consisting of two lines, similar to Piccard 28952, Ravenna 1456, and Piccard 28955, Rome 1450, modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto, two quires from a longer manuscript, lacking the last two folios in the second quire, now bound out of order (reconstructed collation, i 10 ii 10 ), horizontal catchword middle lower margin, f. Ii (paper) + 18 + ii folios on paper, most folios are reinforced with modern paper, with the exception of the middle bifolia of each quire (ff.

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