First leaf of first quire and last leaf of last quire are pastedowns Binding: Original morocco, gilt-tooled, with seal attached on multicolor cord and remnants of ribbon ties Layout: Written in one column of thirty-six lines; ruled in ink with double vertical bounding lines Script: Gothic--rotunda (Spanish) Decoration: Three full-page miniatures of the Yturbe family praying before the Virgin Mary as the Mulier Amicta Sole (fol. 1v), a double portrait of John the Baptist and Saint Augustine (fol. 2r), and a scene of Saint James vanquishing the Moors above the Yturbe coat of arms (fol. 2v); an elaborately illuminated first text page of the titles of Philip II continued from the full-page miniatures... Related resource: Hirsh, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), pp. 29-30, no. 22. Provenance: Formerly owned by Ambrose Firmin Didot (1790-1876; small red and gold stamp "Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmini Didoti, 1850" inside front cover)
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