8vo (150 x 100 mm). Roman and italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-L⁸: 88 leaves (F2 missigned E2). First word of title🍬 in decorative cartouche, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Slight browning and spotting, 15 mm red stain to C4 very slightly 🍸affecting text, marginal paper flaws on D8 and L6.)

binding: Contemporary limp vellum (154 x 110 mm), slight fore-edge flaps, traces of manuscript author name on spine, ex-libris "IO. BAPTISTA DE PVTEO I.C." pasted over spine, stu💝bs from 2 pairs of ties, manuscript title on tail-edge. (Binding somewhat soiled and scraped, 10 mm burn mark to upper cover, endleaves pasted down, lower endleaf wormed.)

provenance: Giovanni Battista Puteo, woodcut armorial bookplate pasted over spine, lettered "IO. BAPTISTA DE PVTEO I.C."—Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Catalogue 34, no. 140. acquisition: Purchased in 2009 from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan. references: USTC 827045; Edit16 CNCE 17387