Questo libro si commincio a Roma d'Ottobre l'anno 1585. 2r-3v Monitione, followed by Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 1597. Written in ca. The binding is too tight to permit collation.
Catchwords appear on most folios, below written space, on both recto and verso.
Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand. Written in Italy in the seventeenth century, possibly for the unidentified cardinal for whom it was bound. Bequeathed to Yale University in 1883 by Joseph J. Cooke. De Ricci, v. 1, p. 169, no.