Part 1: ff. 1-224

Description: - Parchment - 245 x 166 mm - 29 long lines; vertical rules in lead, horizontal rules in ink.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Humanistic.

Other Decoration: 2 large gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on blue, green and purple grounds; 15 large blue initials on squared grounds of floral and geometric patterns in red; 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with red pen flourishing.

Notes: Foliated 1-224 but folios following 101 and 144 are unnumbered.




Text 1: ff. 1-15

Author: Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

Title: Bucolica

Language(s): Latin

Image 1: f. 1 Gold initial; white vine stem.




Text 2: ff. 53-224v

Author: Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

Title: Aeneid

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Lacks Book I; Ovid's Augmentum libri I Aeneidos f.52v. 

Image 2: f. 52v Added verses.

Image 3: f. 53 Gold initial; white vine stem.

Image 4: f. 80 Flourished initial; later reader's notes in Italian.

Image 5: f. 148v Vertical rules in lead, horizontal rules in ink; single prick mark in outer margin diagonally below last line of text

Image 6: f. 176 Flourished initials.

Image 7: ff. 197v-198 Later reader's notes.

Image 8: f. 148v, detail Single prick mark in outer margin.




Text 3: ff. 15-52

Author: Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

Title: Georgica

Language(s): Latin

Image 9: f. 32 Flourished initials.