Collation: 23 quires of 12 folios except the first (11 folios), 22nd (10 folios), and 23rd (11 folios). Folios 9v-11v are blank. Foliated in pencil on the upper right recto. Script: Written in brown ink, apparently in a single hand, in a late Gothic style which seems to have gradually evolved into a cursive or humanistic script. Layout: Written in 30-31 long lines; four margins ruled with a double line. Decoration: Includes marginal notes, versals in blue and vermillion with tracework in the contrasting color, and minor illumination in polychrome and gold. Binding: Rebound in vellum over boards The present fol. 12 is apparently a replacement for an original folio removed from the manuscript. It contains the prologue and part of the table of contents for book 1 written in the scribe's developed humanistic hand. Since fol. 12r is inscribed with a coat of arms ("allegedly" those of Cardinal Fieschi according to De Ricci), the recopying was probably done to change the original arms... Marginal notes throughout in several hands. From the library of Marquis of Taccone of Naples (his shelfmark 72). Purchased by the University of Chicago from S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin in 1891.
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