Script and Textual Contents

Description and Contents

The manuscript is written in Latin in Humanistic minuscule.

The text was written by Messer Piero di Benedetto Strozzi (1416-c. 1492), a parish priest of Ripoli and an expert Humanistic scribe, who copied manuscripts for Vespasiano da Bisticci’s distinguished clients between 1443 and 1490.

fol. 1v Dedication to Louis XI of France

fols. 2r-4r Donato Acciaiuoli, Preface addressed to Louis XI of France

fols. 6r-26r Donato Acciaiuoli, Vita Caroli Magni