Title from caption on fol. 1r. Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment (southern preparation), fol. 285 (fol. 1-240, original arabic foliation in red; fol. 241-284, modern pencil, last leaf unnumbered) ; 1-2810 296 (-6) ; catchwords surrounded by four flourishes with many minor variations. Layout: Written in 37 long lines, beginning on the second ruled line, Script: Written in humanistic textualis formata by more than one scribe; fol. 201r-217v, quotation marks frequently used; accents present, a distinction made between the form of accent mark used for the tonic syllable and that used to denote the letter "i"; headings in red in rustic capitals and in script of text; upper margins, running headings in red in script of text; Greek words generally... Decoration: fol. 1r, gold initial historiated with Jerome as a cardinal in his study, decorated with white vine stem on a blue and pink ground 14 lines high in the presence of a full white vine stem border, decorated with gold on a ground of pink and blue; lower margin center, within a roundel, Christ with cross standing in the tomb; lower margin left, half portrait of Justina; lower margin... Origin: Written in illustrated in Italy at Padua, approximately 1450 for the library of the monastery of Santa Giustina. Formerly in the monastery library of Santa Giustina: fol. 1r and 284v, written in humanistic textualis media: "Iste liber est monachorum congregacionis sanctȩ Iustinȩ ipsi monasterio Sanctȩ Iustinȩ patauii deputatus," with number "325" and pressmark "B 15"; recorded as no. 325 in library catalog dating from 1453-1484 in Padua, Museo Civico. Formerly in the library of Lawrence W. Hodson with printed label on front pastedown: "From the library of Lawrence W. Hodson, Compton Hall near Wolverhampton". Armorial bookplate of C. W. Dyson Perrins and round black sticker with "86" written in pen. Listed as no. 86 in Descriptive catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins. Sold at Sotheby's, December 3-5, 1906, lot number 300; sold by Quaritch in 1909 to C. W. Dyson Perrins; sold at Sotheby's, December 1958, lot number 29.
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