Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Paper (water damage severe toward end; fol. 76-79, folios reset on modern paper), fol. i + 79 + i ; 110 (-9, stub only) 21 (a single leaf with catchwords on verso) 3-810 910 (-10) ; horizontal catchwords surrounded by 4 fleur-de-lys-type flourishes. Layout: Written in 25 long lines; ruled in pencil. Script: Written in northern European lettre bâtarde; headings in red in script of text; occasional marginal notes in Italian humanistic cursiva. Decoration: fol. 1r: gold dentelle initial with white patterning on a ground of green, blue, and red 5 lines high; discrete full border of blue, green, and red acanthus spray decorated with radiating gold disks; gold dentelle initials with white patterning on grounds of green and blue 4 lines high at the beginning of each chapter, some decorated with a trace of acanthus spray bearing radiating... Origin: Written in Italy by a scribe trained in northern Europe, after January 31, 1483, date on which Oliviero Carafa became bishop of Santa Sabina (Rome). Unidentified cardinal's arms, fol. 1r, placed beneath a bishop's miter, on either side, the initials "O" and "F"; these arms are not those of Oliviero Carafa. Former owner's signature, front pastedown, of Henry Cestole, 18th-century.
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