Written in an upright humanistic script in black ink in 1 column. The original ms. is paginated i-cxcx [i.e., cc]. 3 leaves at the front contain a table of contents and title page in a later hand. Initial letters are in gold with white-vine decoration in color. F. 1r has a white-vine border with illuminated initial, miniature of a young king and the arms of King Ferrante I of Aragon and Naples, and his arms. Bound in original brown morocco (repaired), tooled in blind and gilt, with leather clasps now broken. In a tray case, 36 cm. The text was published from a different ms. as Historia de la corona de Aragon (Zaragoza 1876). It is there attributed to Pedro Marsilio. Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (letter in curatorial file); Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (bookplate; sale, Paris, 1872, lot 1719); Rowland Gibson Hazard (bookplate). Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.
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