Script: Written in a single highly legible, fine, well-rounded, Italian humanist hand. The paper is undoubtedly of mid-15th century Italian origin, and may possibly have originated in Florence about the year 1456; its none-too-common watermark, with crossed daggers, seems identical to that in Briquet, Les filigranes, vol. II, watermark no. 5157). Binding: 18th-century English calf over boards, tooled in gold. Portions of the codex, particularly the odes and epistles, have been profusely annotated in a second hand; but other parts, such as the Ars poetica and the satires, are unmarked. Bookplate on inside front ocver with a noble coat-of-arms (of the earls of Hopetoun?) and Latin mottoes. Once belonged to John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th earl of Hopetoun and 1st marquis of Linlithgow, who sold it (London...
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