15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Pierre Dumont Himself]

Thank you for the compliments. I was in fact inspired by your own diligence and persistence.

I had another look at the critical edition and it turns out he only wrote the first draft of the Lombard chronicle in Tortona, which he then revised in 1364 in Piacenza. The MS D 269 inf is assumed to have been copied from an original in poor condition. The copyist even mentions in a marginal  note that he could not understand a specific word. There is an undated signature on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. belonging to a certain "Franciscus de Tonellis" (the Tonelli were Azario's protectors in Novara), and an inscription on f2r dated to the 14th century, saying:
 

"Iste liber est Ecclesie Sancti Nicolay Novarie, in
" quo continentur multa, que a modico tempore citra gesta sunt in partibus Lombardie,
" scripta per condam Petrum Azarium civem novariensem „ 

The manuscript subsequently traveled around Northen Italy for a few decades and was used by early 15th-century historians, then lost and rediscovered in 1683 in Novara. I assume it is safe to place it somewhere in the province. It is unclear which Church of Saint Nicholas was being referred to, but it could have been the 10th-century church in Borgomanero. Little is known about the life of Azario after the publlication of the chronicle.