Rustic capital.

Script is an old type of Rustic capital with M and N broad; H has the simple capital form; F and L rise slightly above the line; G has two forms. Each page begins with a slightly larger letter.

The original scribe uses high, medial, and low points for various pauses. Omissions marked by A in the text and B before the line supplied in lower margin, or by arrow-heads in text and margin. Abbreviations restricted to B^., Q^. =bus, que; omitted M at line-ends and once omitted N (fol. XLL) marked by a mere stroke.

Gatherings probably of eights (but this is hard to determine); one quire-mark, probably VIIII, survives at the right-hand lower margin of fol. VII^v.

Flesh-side no doubt outside quires.

Foll. 75 (fol. LXXVI is a leaf of the Codex Medicus; see next item and Florence Laur. XXXIX.1) - all leaves now separately mounted.

No colophons, but at the end of a book there is a line of rope pattern (fol. LVII^v). Traces remain of a running title in Rustic capital on foll. LXXI, LXXII.

Fifty miniatures survive, beautifully coloured, with excellent drawing and compostion in the classical style.

The first three lines of each book are in red.

Origin presumably Italy. The connexion with Cassiodorus is a mere guess; the arguments for Spain seem unconvincing.

Belonged to Pontanus (1426-1503), later to Bembo and to Fulvio Orsini (†1600), after whose death it came into the Papal Library in 1602.