Handwriting style

The handwriting seems most aligned with an Italian humanist style of handwriting. This style of handwriting has its origins as being a reaction to the heavy Gothic scripts and their difficulty reading the Gothic handwriting style. The Italian humanist script used more open letterforms that were easier to read. The use of a Italian humanist script closely aligns with the the origins of the codex and its author Carbo who was an Italian humanist at this period of time.

There are at least two pages with writing that differs in style from the main text. Recto 13 (13r) and verso 16 (16v) contain emendations to the text writing in a different handwriting style. This could have been edits to the original text by another scribe or, if this codex was a copy of the original, the emendations could be edits by Carbo himself.

Incipit

The incipit is found on the first recto (1r). It contains an ornate greeting to King Matthias from the author. Carbo pontificates how he hasn’t found any King as mighty, great, and glorious as King Matthias.

Explicit

The end page in the codex (40v) contains the final word “Finis”. There is no additional ending to the codex.

Subscriptio and/or colophon

These aren’t present in the codex.

Marginalia

The marginalia contains annotations written in red ink to help identify individuals or ideas referred to in the main text (e.g. 34v, 35r). There are also marks in the margin with dark ink (see 23r). One such mark looks like a small doodle. Others look like marking a particular section of the text.