Extent: 123 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 183 x 130 (105 x 63) mm. bound to 193 x 141 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. The text contains interlinear and marginal glosses. Two dates appear in the manuscript (in a hand smaller than the main text): 21 June 1404 (f. 24v) and 20 April 1404 (f. 73v). The reverse chronological order of these two dates in the manuscript may indicate that the three works contained therein were initially bound in a different order -- a hypothesis supported by the fact that the three separate texts do not share any of the same quires and... The notes express not only the day, month, and year when the texts were completed, but the hour of the day as well. The first date also includes the indiction. On fol. 73v the scribe identifies himself as "Francisch[us]", in the smaller hand of the glosses ("...feliciter a me francischo Expletus est liber iste &c."). A leaf has been removed after the end of De senectute (between ff. 73 and 74); it was the last folio in its quire. Some of the folios are palimpsests. Layout: 18 long lines. Script: Gothic textual. Decoration: Blue and red painted initials with calligraphic pen flourishes at the beginning of each text. Binding: 19th cent., Italian brown calf, gold tooled; green silk endpapers. Origin: Written in Italy, not later than 1404. Provenance: Count D. Boutourlin coll., Florence (Cat., 1831, n. 71); his sale (Paris, 16 Nov. 1840, II, n. 325) to Farrel; Monmerque ́sale (Paris, 12 May 1851, n. 2788) to Boulouze; A. Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1882, n. 38) to Labitte; bought in Paris, 1886, for A.D. White by George Lincoln Burr. Received by the White Library in 1891. Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare P C564 A3 Related shelfmark: MS B.3 (De Ricci)
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