Fifteenth-century codex in the news

(cross-posted to medievalstudies)

From the Toronto Star: Manuscript may be a women's magazine. The article argues that a mid-fifteenth-century miscellany is aimed at women and is an ancestor of Cosmopolitan (!). I leave you to judge just how much the reporter simplified her data, but the article's a fun read.

Also, I have emailed the Star to inform them that Biblioteca Nazionale is not actually the name of the manuscript, so you all don't have to.