Part 1: ff. 1-100

Description: - Parchment - 200 x 136 mm - 26 and 27 long lines ruled in ink; ff. 93-100v ruled in ink and dry point.

Country: Italy

Cardinal point: northeastern

Assigned Date: s. XVex

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 2; scribe 1, ff. 1-92v; scribe 2, ff. 93-100v.

Script: Humanistic, noting hand.

Artist(s): Cristoforo Cortese, style of

Figurative Decoration: 8 historiated initials with gold backgrounds and floral marginal extensions.

Other Decoration: 6- and 3-line painted initials in gold. Space reserved for 2- and 4-line initials throughout.

Notes: Table of contents for codex added in contemporary noting hand to f. i verso; texts annotated in one 15th-century hand.




Text 1: ff. 1-64v

Author: Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus)

Title: Miscellany

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Includes De beata vita De ordine Book 2; sermon 129, "De Calendis Januariis"; and sermon 278, "De Auguriis." 

Image 1: f. 1v Table of contents, added s. XV.

Image 2: f. 2 Historiated initial, St. Augustine.

Image 3: f. 2v Miniature with inset initial, two men in a sailboat.

Image 4: f. 23v Painted initial.

Image 5: f. 25 Historiated initial, St. Augustine.

Image 6: ff. 48v-49 Readers' pointing hands, brackets, "nota" mark and notes.

Image 7: f. 58 Historiated initial (of January?); painted initial.

Image 8: f. 61 Historiated initial, man counting.




Text 2: ff. 67-76v

Title: Prologue to the Vitaspatrum Life of Macarius

Language(s): Latin

Image 9: f. 68 Historiated initial, St. Jerome.




Text 3: ff. 76v-80v

Title: Life of Moses the Ethiopian

Language(s): Latin

Image 10: f. 78 Historiated initial, the Ethiopian monk Moses.




Text 4: ff. 80v-87

Author: Jerome (Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus)

Title: Vita Malchi monachi captivi

Language(s): Latin

Image 11: f. 81v Historiated initial, Malchus as tonsured monk.




Text 5: ff. 87v-90v

Author: Battista Malatesta

Title: Poem addressed to Jerome

Language(s): Italian




Text 6: ff. 90v-92v

Author: Jerome (Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus)

Title: Prologue to Liber questionum hebraicarum in Genesim

Language(s): Latin




Text 7: ff. 93-100v

Author: Jerome (Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus)

Title: Vita S. Pauli primi eremitae

Language(s): Latin

Image 12: f. 94 Change of hand and decoration.

Image 13: f. 98 Slit along outer vertical bounding line from excessive force applied in dry point ruling, in lower margin.