On f. 34r the text begins with a 5-line initial of similar design except that the baguette is absent. The initial is blue, the infilling a geometric red and blue. On f. 89r a 4-line initial of similar design extends into a single baguette from the lower corner of the initial. There are many 2-line initials, gold on a blue or red ground with white penwork infilled with the opposite color. Other 1-line initials, either gold or blue, begin each sentence.
Rubrics are in red throughout.
The book is well worn, many of the illuminations and border decorations have been cracked and rubbed off. Written in the Piedmont in final quarter of the fifteenth century. Owned in the eigthteenth century by the Discalced Augustinians of San Carlo, Turin. Given in 1808 by Marchese Porri-Carcani, of Como, to Abate Carlo Francese Frasconi, of the Cathedral at Novara. In the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Allan P. Marquand, the former a professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.