First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger.
Script: late carolingian minuscule.
Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout.
Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines.
Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover.
Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et].
Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding.
In Latin.