Bestiary and Fiore de virtu, in Italian

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Bestiary and Fiore de virtu. Folios 8, 9, 19, and the end of the second work are wanting. Written in a somewhat difficult current hand: headings in red. Ilustrated with 83 crude water-colour drawings of animals.

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1. ff. 1r-36v Bestiary

f. 1r Delli singniori tutte le chose li quali gli uomini del mondo sanno e possono sapere ... f. 36v ... cogli altri eletti de esso nostro singnore iddio lo quale chol suo figluolo e chollo spirito santo vive e rengne per infinite secula sechulorum Amen. Deo Gratias.

2. ff. 36v-61v Fiore de virtu, incomplete

f. 36v Ho fatto chome cholui chi e in uno grandisimo prato di fiori elegi tutti li piu belli per fare una girlanda e pero voglio the questo mio picholo lavoro abi nome fiore di virtu. A]more binivolenzia e dilicazione ... f. 61v ... la terza sia intesso quando luomo giace chon una sua parente ...

Bestiary and Fiore de virtu, in Italian

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