Single leaf, 171 by 260 mm, with single column of 19 lines of a fine and accomplished humanist hand (with part of last word of Psalm 93:3 to opening words of 94:1), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, one illuminated initial enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, marks to outer edges from last mounting, small torn section from upper edge, folds to one corner, overall presentable condition
The parent manuscript of this leaf was one of two sister volumes (the other now Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.7.46), copied by Bishop Pietro Ursuleo (d. 1483) of Satarino, and elevated on his deathbed to archbishop of Santa Severina. It must have been copied for a patron who lived in Ravenna, and was later in the possession of John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864), and the parent manuscript was lot 161 in his sale in Sotheby's, 13 June 1864. The book was still intact in 1913 (Tregaskis cat. 743, no. 510), but beginning to be broken in the years that followed (see Tregaskis cat. 777, 1916, no. 81). Other leaves are recorded in M.M. Manion, V.F. Vines and C. de Hamel, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no. 89
