Title from incipit to Prohemium (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf p7v): Qui finisce il Novellino con le .L. Argomenti [et] morali conclusio[n]i dalcuni exempli per Masucio guardato nobele salernitano facto [et] i[n]titulato alla Illustrissima Ipolita d[e] Calabria Duchessa. Impressu[m] Mediolani per Cristophorum Valdarfer Ratisponensem eme[n]datum [et] correctum cum magna diligentia a[n]no dominice poassionis .M.cccclxxxiii. die .xxviii. May regnante excelentissimo ligurum principe Domino .D. Joa[n]ne Galea[m] Duce Mediolani.
Printed in Valdarfer's types 5:90/91G and 6:180G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸ l-m⁶ n-p⁸: 118 leaves, leaves [1]/4 and a[1] blank. Leaf a[2] signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
With prefatory letter by Francesco de Tuppo (leaf a[1]v).
Dedicated to Ippolita Maria Sforza, duchess of Calabria.
Initial spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/4 and a[1] (blanks), and with [1]/1 bound after [1]/3.
Massucii Salernitani de quinquaginta argumentis moralibus ad illustrissimam Hyppolitam
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.