The first page of the main text (fol. 6r) may have been designed by Francesco di Antonio del Chierico and he may have completed the cherubs’ faces and flesh. But the colours and finishing outlines were applied by a different hand.
The pigments are more saturated, the white vine scrolls more firmly delineated and the modelling of the cherubs’ drapery more schematic. All of these features emulate del Chierico’s early works faithfully enough to suggest the hand of a close associate.
