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MS palimpsest in Italian and Latin (texts 5, 50-51) on vellum, Firenze, Italy, ca. 1450, 166 ff. (complete), 27x17 cm, single column, (23x11 cm), 39-46 lines in Italian cursive with some side notes and capitals in red.

MS French on vellum(text 1) and paper(text 2), Lorraine, France, 2 ff.; Text 1: ca. 1450, 12x33 cm, single column, (12x33 cm), 2 lines in a rotunda Gothic book script of medium quality, map in brown, green and red. Text 2: ca. 1550, 13x33 cm, single column, (13x33 cm), 1 line in French cursive script, map in grey, black, brown, and red. 

MS in Old Babylonian on clay, Niru, Babylonia, 1684-1647 BC, 1 tablet, 9,5x12,0x2,8 cm, 22 lines and captions in cuneiform script. 

MS in Neo Sumerian on clay, Umma, Sumer, Ur III dynasty, 2112-2004 BC, 1 tablet, 6,3x7,2x2,3 cm, 5 lines in cuneiform script, map of fields. 

MS on chalk-like stone, Fords Bridge, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 20000-3000 BC, 1 oval-conical and cornute form cylcon, flat base, 22x7x7 cm, paired parallel lines, groups of small dashes, longitudinal deep incisions, rows of dashes, heavy weathering on one side.