Collation: Parchment. I-IX12, X12+1, XI10, XII-XXVII12, XXVIII10, XXIX-XXX12, XXXI12−1, XXII-XXXVIII12, XXXIX10, XL-XLII12, [XLIII]8−3; f. 120, a singleton, was added to correct a copying error; quire XXXI (f. 358-368) is a mid-fifteenth-century Italian replacement in rotunda script with Italian-style illumination on f. 358; one folio cancelled after f. 366, three cancels at end. Signatures... Layout: 1 column, 38 lines. Bounding lines full-length, doubled for heading line, bounding and writing lines in light plummet, prickings preserved. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand (fol. 358-368 in Italian rotunda of the mid-fifteenth century) in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: 3- to 5-line initials throughout alternate blue with red filigree or red with blue filigree with blue and red patterning in outer margin; twenty-one 4- to 12-line initials in gold with colors, bar border in outer margin in gold and colors with animals or groteques. Red brackets connect similar points in text to common theme written in outer margin in red. Thirteen 8- to 12-line... Written in Paris or French Flanders at the end of the thirteenth century, perhaps for Dominican use (given the inclusion of Dominicans in the majority of the images), according to unpublished notes by Lilian Armstrong. The manuscript was in Italy by the mid-fifteenth century, when the additions and corrections were made. Seventeenth-century inscription on original second flyleaf (preserved with the old binding) reads "Jo. De Monte - vel Dominicus Leo Venutus et aliqui putant. / De Laudibus Mariae. Cod. Memb. Saec. XIII o sia 1309". Sold in 1877 by Cesare Tartagi, Florentine bookdealer (his label on the verso...
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