Quires reinforced around the outer and in the center bifolia with narrow trips of parchment from a noted liturgical manuscript (too small for identification or description). 

Written in Italy, possibly in Florence, in the first quarter of teh fifteenth centry (we thank Professor A. C. de la Mare for this information; July, 1986).

Sold by Thorpe, London, 1836, no. 991 ("991" in pencil, front endleaves, ff. ii and iii) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps Cat. p. 153, MS 9618; "9618" in black ink inside front cover and endleaf, f. iii^v); Phillipps sale, London, Sotheby's May 1, 1903, no. 907 (clipping inside front cover), to Maggs. Unidentified bookseller's note, front endleaf, f. ii: "N^c 234 0"; inside front cover, shelf mark (?), in pencil: "B11.385"; inside back cover "201" in pencil. Given by Daniel B. Fearing (1859-1918) to Morris Hickey Morgan (1859-1910), Christmas, 1904 (note in Fearing's hand, front flyleaf, f. i; bookplate, inside front cover). Gift of Morgan to Harvard, January 1, 1910 (library stamp, f. 1v; bookplate, inside back cover); original Harvard shelfmark: Lp 15.2.2.