Water damage throughout; first leaf nearly detached; paper repairs to fols. 1r-2v Binding: Parchment Layout: Single column written in thirty-four lines; single vertical bounding lines full length; first quire bounded in lead, remaining three in ink with occasional horizontal bounding lines at upper margin; written area: 138 x 91 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Decoration: Seven-line and nine-line initials in red or blue at the beginning of each part; four-line red and blue initials alternate throughout at the beginning of each chapter; faded remnants of red penwork grounds behind initials; majuscules touched with red; rubricated in red; marginalia throughout Provenance: Produced in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century given the style of script and decoration; unidentified "GHo52" in ink and "H 1191" in pencil on front pastedown; unidentified "46" in ink on fol. 1r together with remnant of a round library stamp (43 mm) in lower margin with the word "Bibliotheca" recognizable below a flower; other words missing because paper substratum...
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