Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Paper (two types intermixed, some quite light and shiny, some yellowed and fuzzy, the latter having a simple Latin cross watermark, cf. Briquet, 5590, visible on fol. 39 and 40), fol. ii + 73 ; collation not practicable. Layout: fol. 1r-66v: ruled in pen and hard point for two columns; fol. 5r-31v: all in 38-46 lines in 2 columns beginning, in this section only, on the first ruled line; fol. 67r-72v: written in approximately 34-47 long lines, frame ruled without horizontal ruling after the first leaf for long lines Script: fol.1r-4v: written in lower Rhine Valley hybrida media incorporating some Italian traits by Adam de Wesalia, O.P.; fol. 5r-31v: in a similar script by another hand; fol. 67r-72v: written in gothic cursiva media; marginalia in gothic cursiva currens; headings in humanistic rustic capitalis on fol. 5r-31v and in Italianate textualis rotunda on fol. 1r-5r and 32r-66r; text 5 added in... Decoration: Red initials and paragraph marks. Origin: Written in Rimini by Adam de Wesalia, O.P., a German scribe with Italian training (signed fol. 3v, 53v, and 65v), dated 1454-1456; other portions of the text also reflect a mixture of Northern and Italian traits, with Italian traits particularly strong on fol. 5r-31v. Bookplate of Louis H. Silver. Possibly from the library of the Dominicans of Verona; fly leaf, "Iste liber est conuentus ueronenisis ordinis fratrum praedicatorum in primo deposito a sinistris 19" written in Italian humanistic cursiva, 15th century. This ex libris may be fraudulent by Guillaume Libri. In the library of Marchese Paolino Gianfilippi (Verona) at the end of the 18th century; purchased in 1843 for the collection of Joseph Barrois, , his number 426 written on green circular sticker on spine; sold to Lord Ashburnham; sold at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot no. 582 ("582"" written in blue crayon within a circle on front pastedown), clipping from the catalog tipped to flyleaf, entry...
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