Description
title with ornate calligraphic lattice-work border in blue ink with leaves and tendrils in gold, title capitals and date also in gold, text double-ruled in purple, rubricated throughout with headline in red on every page decorated with gold dots, leaves and lozenges, numerous ornate gilt capitals, two miniatures (both somewhat blurred), p.96 & 145, the latter painted on mounted parchment square, with ornate polychrome floral border at gutter margin, similar margin p.67 with space for miniature and traces of mounting, upper margin cropped affecting some text, fore-margin cropped excising most of original Roman foliation, later pagination supplied in black ink at upper margin, a few faint marks, p. [ii], 240, 12mo, seventeenth-century black calf (probably Italian) with delicate gilt-tooled border, spine richly gilt in four panels, gilt edges, pastedowns with green and gilt floral patterned paper, brittle calf board surface, edges worn, damage at head of spine with slightly loss, housed in custom clam-shell box, good
