Secundo folio: illic fiebant. Collation: Parchment, iv + 132 + viii; 1-210 34 4-1210 138 1410. Script: Written in a skillful but rapid humanistic minuscule. The words from Martial which Calderini comments on are written in red, by the same scribe that wrote the text (some have been written in black by mistake). Spaces were left for Greek words that were never filled in. Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in dry point on the hair side; flesh sides out; vertical catchwords. Decoration: The beginning of the commentary on each epigram is indicated by a 3-line burnished gold initial on a ground of blue, red, and/or green, with white or yellow line-work. There are over 700 of these initials in the manuscript. Binding: 20th-century quarter red morocco with curl marbled paper over boards; binder's signature: The Horton Bindery, 1968. From the library of Marquis Taccone of Naples. Purchased by the University of Chicago from S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin in 1891.
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