Northern Italian (possibly Venice) American binding

Papal Prophecies

1450/99 (modern binding)
Manuscript with 8 folios, 16 miniatures in pen and brown ink, with gothica textualis inscriptions in Latin in brown ink, ruled in brown ink, with rubricated initials in brush and red tempera and gold ink, subscript in black or brown ink or red tempera, and glosses in pen and brown ink, on parchment, in brown morocco leather binding over boards, with gold-embossed spine, parchment fly-leaves and laid paper end papers
23.8 × 17 cm (9.4 × 6.7 in)

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