Prickings visible for bounding lines, occasionally for rulings. Articles 2 and 3 are written in a gothic cursive below the top line. First page of prologue probably containing either an illuminated initial or a larger miniature has been excised. The text of Genesis begins with a large historiated initial extending the full length of the page filling the center margin. Depicted is a three-quarters view of a nimbed saint holding a book, with six more saints behind him extending up the initial, head and shoulders visible.
Acanthus leaves with circular gold terminals form the top and bottom of the initial.
The whole is skillfully painted in red, blue, pink, and a dark gray-green. Guide letters for rubricator visible, notes to rubricator on f. 337r. Written in Italy in the first half of the 14th century. Early provenance unknown. Faye and Bond, p. 400, no. 56.