Title from incipit (leaf [3]/1r).
Colophon (leaf [31]/1v): Laus deo. Anno d[omi]ni .mcccclxxvi. Sever. Ferr.
Printed in Severinus's type 2:95G.
Detailed date supplied by list of enactments (quires [27-30]) dated from 19 August 1457 to 20 May 1476.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2²; 3¹⁰; 4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰ 7-8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶; 12¹⁰ 13-16⁸ 17⁴; 18⁸; 19-23⁸; 24¹⁰ 25-26⁸; 27-29⁸ 30⁶; 31²]: 242 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [17]/4, [23]/8, [26]/8, and [31]/2 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 21.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [31]/2 (blank). Center-bottom margin cut away and replaced (leaf [1]/2r).
Statuta primi libri statutorum civitatis Ferrariae
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary northern Italian red and blue lombards, with red penwork decoration on major initial and illuminated armorial (leaf [3]/1r). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations and manicules. Both tabula numbered, foliation (mainly trimmed) with a box/L-bracket. Leaf [31]/2 replaced with a contemporary manuscript copy by Benedictus de Silvestris (Benedetto Silvestri, papal notary in Ferrara) of a document by Thebaldus de Thebaldis (Tebaldo Tebaldi, notary and secretary to Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara) dated 31 Oct. 1498.