Copy number: P-333(1)

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter calf over old wooden boards; gold-tooled spine; remains of clasp, catch lost. Manuscript title on the upper cover in black ink in a fifteenth-century hand.

Size: 312 × 218 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 302 × 216 mm.

Bibliographical notes by Douce on the recto of the front endleaf.

On [a1r], in the upper and inner margins, an Italian (Ferrara?) white vine-stem border on a blue, maroon, and green ground incorporating an eight-line epigraphic initial ‘R' is supplied in gold on a blue ground edged in black; gold dots surrounded by spiralling pen-work in the upper, lower, and inner margins. In a wreath in the lower margin is a monogram ‘F O' and within ‘i e t' in gold on a blue ground; see Pächt and Alexander II, 113 no. pr. 119; on [g1r] and [k6v] a six-line initial ‘V' and a five-line initial ‘Q' respectively are supplied in gold on a blue and red ground, with gold dots edged in black ink in the margins. Other three- and six-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 259.