Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 598 (foliated with a modern flyleaf 1-612, fol. 21, 131, 375, and 562 removed after this foliation, stains on preceding versos indicate these leaves had illuminated margins and initials; errors in folation: 2 folios 101, folio after fol. 203 unnumbered, fol. 316bis follows fol. 316, unnumbered folio following fol. 373, fol. 400 follows fol. 389, 2 folios 428, no... Layout: Written in 29 lines in two columns; ruled very lightly in brown ink. Script: Written in Italian gothic textualis media with one-stoy "a" and trailing terminal "s" by three hands; fol. 2r-19v, 605v-612v by hand A; fol. 20r by hand B; the rest by hand C. Decoration: Alternating red initials with violet flourishes and blue initials with red flourishes throughout; fol. 22r-130v, simple alternating red and blue initials within sections of text; fol. 502r, small green, blue, and pink initials 7 lines high on gold grounds, floral decoration extending into margin; minor initials touched with yellow. Origin: Written in Italy, probably central Italy, as indicated by the minor initials, in the middle of the 15th century after 19 September 1443, date of death of Ludovico Barbo. Number 10 from the collection of Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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