Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 202 + ii (foliated 1-204); 16 24(-4) 310(1, a numbered leaf, stub only with possible loss of text) 4-1310 1418 1510(1 removed with possible loss of text) 16-1910 2010(-10) 2118; catchwords surrounded by pen flourish designs. Layout: Quire 1 written in 32 long lines; quires 2-19 in 21 lines in two columns; quire 20 in 50 long lines; ruled in pen. Script: Written in Italian gothic rotunda formata. Decoration: Historiated magenta, yellow, blue, and green acanthus leaf initials on gold grounds 4-5 lines high extended to form blue and green acanthus spray outer bracket borders decorated with pink, blue, and yellow flowers: fol. 140v (three apostles), fol. 143r (a Carthusian friar in prayer, his face badly worn), fol. 155r (Andrew), fol. 181r (Jesus with a closed book); fol. 1r, 17v, 18r... Music: Notation on six red four-staves which do not follow original ruling. Origin: Written in Florence, approximately 1408, date on which the feast of Anne was accepted by the Carthusian monastery of San Lorenzo in Galluzzo near Florence. Brief description of this book, possibly by a dealer, dated 1805; below, "Cosimo duc dei Cosmè Ferrarese." Formerly number 39 in the collection of Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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