Ms. codex. Layout: Written in 36 long lines; ruled in pale red ink with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines. Script: Southern textualis formata. Decoration: On folio 1v, a full-page illuminated frontispiece with arms of the House of Echaburru, emblazoned with a three-turreted castle flanked by trees, a prancing dog, and a man with a spear hunting a wild boar; below the name Don Felipe written in gold capitals; in the bas-de-page, a foliate border flanking the IHS emblem of Christ. Rubrics lettered in gold on red grounds, with... Binding: Rebound in leather over boards, with original fan binding laid on; intricately gilt stamped with shell, star, and organic motifs; central diamond has a rayed oval inscribed with "IHS." Origin: Written and illuminated in Valladolid, Spain; dated 13 June, 1587 on folio 35r. Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962. Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, VFL MS 026.
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