MS. E. D. Clarke 25

Decoration

Fine initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 223). Ferrarese 15th century, third quarter, fine historiated initial with portrait of Ludovico Carbone, fol. 169v, by Jacobo Filippo d'Argenta added. On fol. 1a initial and border with arms, cut out from another MS., also Ferrarese of 15th century third quarter, has been pasted in. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 418, pl. XLI)

fol. 2r

• Type border, lower margin
• Subject Pasted in coat of arms in elaborate frame, cut out from another MS., also Ferrarese of the 15th century, third quarter.

• Type initial Q
• Subject Bird forms the tail of Q.

• Type initial L
• Subject Profile portrait of Ludovico Carbone by Jacobo Filippo d'Argenta.