Statutes, 1436 - 1459

Article 1 written in a large, round, gothic bookhand below the top line; articles 2 and 3 written in a smaller, humanistic bookhand. Notes and corrections in several other hands in outer margins, some of these have been trimmed.

Parchment support.

Italian, 17th-century, brown morocco gold-tooled front, back, and spine with the arms of Cardinal Albornoz, also the arms of the College, stamped in gold on the front cover. On a dark-red leather label on spine: "STATUTA UNIV./ BONON. 1377. MS." Two small paper labels on lower spine: "5383," and "217."

ff. i + 31 + iii, 277 x 195 (201 x 128) mm.

Written in 48 ruled lines with a single horizontal bounding line at the top and single vertical bounding lines in ink (Derolez 13. 12). Prickings for bounding lines visible in all three outer margins.

Gothic and humanistic scripts.

After 11 lines of rubrication, the text begins with a large, finely-drawn, 37-line initial forming a border along the left-hand side of the first page. The initial is blue with a simple white cut-out, ornamented with an ornate red-penwork ground. Smaller 2- to 3-line initials begin each statute, alternating between red initials with dark purple-blue penwork grounds and extensions and dark blue initials with red penwork grounds and extensions. A large, crudely-drawn cross on top of a pyramid, both made up of small squares with dots inside, fills the recto of the front flyleaf, probably a later addition. Rubrication throughout in a faded red ink. Guide letters for rubricator are visible below each initial.

17th-century foliation in ink.