Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854.

Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.

Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r.

First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text.

Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434."

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 17.

Petrarch, Itinerarium; Boccaccio, De Montibus, Silvis, Fontibus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Jerusalem > Description and travel.