Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment (palimpsest, southern preparation, 14th century), fol. i + 338 ; 12 28 3-1110 128 13-3510 ; catchwords surrounded by a varying pattern of points and flourishes. Layout: Written in 40 long lines beginning on the first ruled line; prickings visible in outer margin, on fol. 90, two rows of prickings present; ruled in hard point. Script: Written in Italian hybrida media by several very similar hands, with trailing terminal "s", humanistic form of the "g", occasional humanistic use of the "e" with cedilla for "ae" diphthong, and occasional use of the ampersand; the life of Jerome (fol. 3) written in rustic capitals; the "Sepulcri epythaphium (fol. 3) written in humanistic cursiva; headings written in violet (humanistic... Decoration: fol. 3r: illuminated purple and dull gold initial decorated with green, blue, and purple acanthus spray on a checkered ground of gold, purple, and blue, 14 lines high; the acanthus spray extends into a full gold ivy border decorated with red, blue, and green tulip-shaped flowers, a peacock, putti, a wolf, and various fantastic animals; in lower margin, a miniature of Jerome in a... Origin: Written in Ancona by several scribes including Johannes Petrus Mathei de Anchona, signed and dates April 23, 1459 on fol. 337v; in 1460, Nicolas of Ancona presented this book to the Franciscan convent of Ancona: fol. 337v, "Has sacras epistolas deuotissimi Yieronimi sacrarum scripturarum grecarum et ebreicarum interpetris, cuius laboribus ecclesia erudita extitit, Nicolaus Ankonitanus... Two unidentified coats of arms on fol. 3r. Formerly owned by George Reid with his bookplate and, annotated in black ink, "bought in Rome by George Reid"; sold by Reid in 1904 to C. W. Dyson Perrins. Armorial bookplate of C. W. Dyson Perrins and blue and white circular "Perrins Collection" sticker with "65" written in black ink. Listed as no. 65 in Descriptive catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins. Exhibited by Dyson Perrins at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1908, the catalog description (no. 198) tipped onto a modern front flyleaf.
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