Written in an unidentified hand in brown ink in a small rounded late Carolingian minuscule of chiefly 11 lines in single or double columns with neumes arranged above and below a single red stave. Large decorated or historiated initials in red and/or brown with zoomorphic geometric designs, and penwork flourishes appear on ff. 1v, 18r, 27v, 71v (2), 77r, while smaller colored initials occur throughout; rubrics in red and brown. Drawing in light ink of King David playing his harp (f. 19v, margin). Single leaves at the beginning, after ff. 7r, 133r, and end may be lacking; 2 later paper leaves inserted (ff. 91r-92r); trimmed.
Written in Lombardy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1150.
Enclosed in decorative paste paper covers; remains of medieval stitching on 3 leather thongs.
In a box.
MS Lat 388. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
In Latin.