Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 230; 112 2-1410 158 16-2310; vertical catchwords beginning with quire 9. Layout: Written in 24 lines in two columns; ruled in pen (fol. 1r-150v); and lead and hard point (fol. 151r-230v). Script: Written in Italian gothic textualis media formata in very black to brown Italian ink by several hands. Decoration: fol. 13r: blue, green, and violet initial on gold ground historiated with a red poppy 4 lines high; fol. 14r: initial in same colors 8 lines high; full Ferrara style border of blue and pink flowers, acanthus, thistles, small radiating gold disks; fol. 151r, 168r: and passim, initials in similar but not identical style and colors; red initials with violet flourishes alternating with... Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in central Italy, as indicated by the calendar, between 1471 and 1484 (during the pontificate of Sixtus IV). Number 27 from the collection of Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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