Layout: 2 columns of 33 lines. Script: Gothic (but teardrop a), rubrics by another hand; ff. 17-27v, cursive humanistic book hand Decoration: Full border of Ferrarese-style flowers and acanthus in blue, dull pink, and drab green, with gold and painted dots that sprout pen-drawn tendrils; also present: a putto riding a green dolphin that he guides with a triton; a green bird; a very small putto with blue wings Decoration: In the lower margin, 2 putti supporting a ring that encloses a shield (painted over the original shield?): azur, a brown (?) deer (?) passant, the whole surrounded by green acanthus and surmounted by a yellow helmet (?) and a yellow acanthus scroll (?). Decoration: Alternating red and blue initials. Rubrics in red. Binding: Bound in modern vellum. f. 11 cropped along the outer margin Provenance: No. 270 in an Italian bookseller’s catalogue, with image of f. 1 in that bookseller’s catalogue pl. XIV (possibly a catalogue of Giuseppe Martini, 1870-1944). Provenance: On front pastedown, bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947); printed label from the NY Academy of Medicine with his acquisition date of 1928; on f. 1v, stamp of the NY Academy of Medicine, date and acquisition number. 1st gathering of six leaves 2nd gathering of eight leaves 3rd gathering of four leaves 4th gathering of eight leaves+a leaf in position 2 (=f. 19) = 27 leaves. Ruling in dry point. Medieval foliation in pink ink; modern foliation in pencil. Clavis Patrum Graecorum 4400. Patrologia graeca (with an accompanying Latin translation) 52:459-480. Tractatus artis bene moriendi or the Speculum artis bene moriendi, in the long version of the text recognizable by its incipit. See, for example, the incunable, Ars moriendi ‘Cum de praesentis exilii ...’, [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, about 1493]; ISTC ia01097000; photographed in full and on the website of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek This manuscript contains the printed book’s text on ff. A ii through C iii. Disruption in the copying of the manuscript’s text: only ff. 15-16v are in a standard and formal book hand; thereafter the text is copied in a cursive book hand. Note that the rubric has been added by a later hand.
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