Copy number: T-147(1)

Binding: Eighteenth/ninenteenth-century half parchment over yellow pasteboards; title and imprint information in brown ink on the spine. Yellow pastedowns. ‘263' on a slip of paper pasted onto the front endleaf.

Size: 231 × 169 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 222 × 162 mm.

A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary humanist hand, and pointing hands, all in brown ink. On t10v various pen-trials in sixteenth-century Italian hands, among which is ‘Ego do[mi]nus Ioanes Baptista de Parma | ego donus Angelus de Bussetto | ego donus Aurelius hec scripsi | quia sincera f(?)'. Modern manuscript foliation 1-152, in pencil.

Principal initials are supplied in red, sometimes with reserved white decoration, with brown pen-work decoration with extension into the margin. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash.

Provenance: Parma, Benedictines of the Congregation of S. Justina (from 1477), S. Johannes Evangelista; contemporary inscription in an Italian humanist hand in light brown ink, on a6v: ‘Iste liber est monachorum Congregationis sancte Justine ordinis sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatus monasterio sancti Johannis euangeliste de Parma. Signatus numero .94.' On a1r in a marginally later hand: ‘Iste liber est s Johannis Euangeliste de Parma no. 58'. Below, in a later hand in brown ink: ‘F(?) de Giuntis'. Johannes Bruni (fl. 1703); name on a1v: ‘Ioannis Bruni 1703'. Albergotti family (eighteenth century); ‘Albergotti' in pencil on the verso of the front endleaf. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 159; see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £0. 10. 6; see sale catalogue (1839), lot 263, and Books Purchased (1840), 3.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.58.