Title from incipit. Manuscript codex. Fol. 1-2 blank; may be original flyleaves. Collation: Parchment, fol. iv (modern paper) + 89 (foliated 1-89, paginated 1-175) + iv (modern paper) ; 12 2-118 128(-8) ; horizontal catchwords in center. Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled for margins; occasional marginal corrections by scribe. Script: Southern textualis libraria/formata. Ascenders of "d" unusually long; very few abbreviations and almost no ligatures. Decoration: alternating red-and-blue and blue-and-red penwork initials throughout. Fol. 3r illuminated with a floral border in gold, blue, green, yellow, ochre, and light pink with 11-line illuminated initial and arms of Cardinal Petrus de Thureyo. Arms of Petrus de Thureyo are over the erasure of an earlier crest, which an earlier University of Chicago cataloger speculates belonged to... Binding: Pigskin over board; blind tooling; clasps; red sprinkled edges; parchment manuscript waste bound in before fol. 1 (script is a hurried cursive); binding by the Marygold Bindery, dated 1909 on rear turn-in. Origin: Ullman believes this manuscript was produced shortly after Salutati's death in 1406 by the same scribe who wrote Vatican Library Urb. lat. 694 (see Colucii Salutati de Seculo et Religione). Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, BX2430.S2. Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms187. Crest of Cardinal Petrus de Thureyo (Thury) on fol. 3r. Petrus de Thureyo likely acquired the manuscript in 1406 and 1409. Early former owner's inscription on first blank leaf verso: "domino Joh[ann]i Perrini, priori domus boni loci ordinis cartusiensium detur" (Johannes Perrini, prior of the Carthusians of Bonlieu near Saint-Claude, in the Jura). Frequent manuscript annotations in an early...
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