Title from catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Humanistic; ff. 2-3v, italic; ff. 1, 2, square capitals. Layout: 14 212 310(+1, f. 17) 4-510 610(+4, f. 51) 7-810 910(+9, f. 87) 10-1210 1310(+2, f. 121) 14-1510 1610(+6, f. 155) 1710 188 1910 2010(-10 after f. 197v with loss of text) 218 22-2310 24-258 268(+4, f. 245) 27-2810 2910(+4, f. 274) 30-3110 3210(+2, f. 304) 33-3610 3710(+10, f. 362) 38-4010 418 42-4310 446(-6). Catchwords vertically along inside bounding line. Ruled space, 156 x 106 mm... Decoration: Nine full page illuminations, and smaller border illustrations surrounding them, on the versos of inserted singletons, which are blank on the recto; miniatures missing before ff. 190, 223, 333. Other Decoration: Spaces reserved for 2-line initials in the last 2 quires (ff. 412-426). Rubrics in pale red. Assigned Date: s. XVI1/4. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/24/2009. Written in 1519 in southern Italy, perhaps Naples, for Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva d'Aragona (1458-1529), Duke of Atri, whose arms are in the lower margin of f. 18, as in Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 8, except that the second and third quarter in the manuscript bear, impaled, or a lion rampant azure, and argent a lion rampant gules. Belonged to the Duke de Cassano Serra of Naples, whose collection...
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