Script: Written by Alberto Maffei in a small calligraphic Humanistica Semitextualis Formata.

Each sonnet opens with a Capital in gold ink, the three subsequent stanzas with alternating red and blue Capitals. On the opening page (f. 2r), however, the opening Capitals are in gold on a square blue background dotted with gold, above each of the two sonnets floral ornaments have been painted in red and gold ink and in the lower margin there is a medallion within a gold wreath adorned with ribbons and containing the coat of arms of the Ariani family flanked by the initials "I.A.". ff. 1 and 52 are stained purple and the text of artt. 1 and 3 is written in gold ink, the headings being executed in silver ink. On both pages silver and gold floral ornaments in three margins. The ones in the lower margins end in Capital "A" (for "Albertus").

Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue velvet over cardboard with blue watered-silk doublure. Gilt edges.

In Italian.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.

Italian poetry > 15th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.