Written by the German scribe Johannes Andreae de Colonia (colophon
on fol. 201v) who once claimed to have copied more than 100
manuscripts. A typical example of his skilful, rather solid script.
Related to the Convent of S. Maria degli Angeli. The manuscript is
not dated, but the putti and naturalistic birds in the superb
flower border on f.1 are close in style to those found in a group
of manuscripts dated about 1440. The more fantastic birds recall
the types found in Gothic manuscripts of the early 1400's and the
figure in the initial recalls the figure in the initial of Lorenzo
Monaco, who was for a time a monk at the Angeli and worked there as
an illuminator in the late 14th century. The flower borders are
extremely unusual in a humanistic manuscript of this date. They
anticipate the borders of Francesco di Antonio and Filippo Torelli,
and may be an early example of the latter's work.
