Collation: Parchment. 1-410, 58−1 (final folio was originally a pastedown). Vertical catchwords. Foliated in modern pencil. Layout: 1 column, 24 lines. Bounding lines doubled, bounding and writing lines in blind. Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink. Rubrics are red epigraphic capitals. Decoration: Fol. 1: 3/4 scrolling border in gold and colors with birds, in the lower border a wreath supported by cupids containing with Rucellai arms (party per bend, gules a lion sable [for argent] and or two [for three] fesses vivrees azure); 4-line initial on fol. 1 in gold with white-vine infill, unfinished; the other thirteen cantos begin with a 3-line gold initial on blue background... Origin: Written in Italy (possibly Florence) in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Owned by (produced for?) the Rucellai family (see arms on fol. 1) Sold by a French dealer in the 19th century.
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