FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 390 x 260 mm, 880 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy: Naples.
CHRONOLOGY – Between the first and second decade of the 14th century.
PATRONAGE – Cardinal Landolfo Brancaccio.
FORMER OWNERS – Monastery of San Nicolò l’Arena.
GENRE – Christianity; Bibles / Gospels.
CONTENTS – Old and New Testament. Epistles and Prologues of Saint Jerome.
LANGUAGE – Latin.
SCRIPT – Gothic. Text in two columns of 56 lines.
DECORATION – More than 100 historiated or inhabited initials; 167 decorated initials; over 270 calligraphic initials; decorative borders.
ARTIST – Pietro Cavallini (Pietro de’ Cerroni).
STYLE – Gothic.
de’, de’
l’Arena, l’Arena
l’Arène, l’Arène