Script: copied in several hands: artt. 2 (the main text) and 4 are copied by several hands in bold Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria; art. 1 is written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria (Anglicana); and art. 3 is in a rapid Gothica Hybrida.

Decoration: Headings, running headlines, heightening of majuscules and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 1-line versals alternately red and blue in the Capitula. 2-line blue flourished initials half inserted, with red penwork extending into the left margin or the intercolumnar space. The Preface and the Books open with 6- or 7-line gold initials half inserted on a red and blue square background heightened with white penwork. Artt. 1 and 3 are not decorated; art. 4 has paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and numbering of the Chapters in red.

Binding: Contemporary, undecorated red leather over rounded wooden boards, worm-eaten. Remnants of two straps attached to the front board and closing over pins (lost) on the rear board. Marks of a chain attached to the lower edge of the front board.

In Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.