Title from incipit, f. 1r: Nel nome dela santissima Trinita incomenza la prima parte di questo sacratissimo libro chiamato Mare Magno dela Crucifissa. Date from similarity to Venetian bindings of the period (see curatorial file) and ownership notes. With ca. 250 small and 10 large woodcuts cut out from printed books, partly colored, pasted in. Written in a very small humanistic hand in black ink in 2 columns (occasionally 1 or 3 columns), rubrics in red in a rotunda gothic hand in 1 column. Flyleaves at front and back are vellum part-leaves from a ms. apparently of Monaldus, O.F.M., Summa iuris, written in 2 columns in a gothic book-hand, initial letters in blue and red with pen-work decoration. Bound in contemporary goatskin over paper boards, blind-stamped. That the author was a Franciscan is likely from his sources, including Ubertino of Casale and Henrico Herp. See curatorial file for detailed description of the ms. and further discussion of the work. In a tray case, 24 cm. Notes on end flyleaf by an owner named Baldassare, recording the birth of his son Bartolomeo in 1557. Purchased, 2004.
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