Binding: full binding; material: calfskin. Leather decoration technique on the cover: sprinkling (pseudo-marbling). The spine is dyed in a darker hue. Tooling: the spine bears repeated impressions of the same tool. The upper panel of the spine has an inscription: RSI.; the middle panel has an inscription: Breve directorium concionatoris apostolici Balthasare Danquart Societatis Iesu [abbreviated], the bottom panel: [unreadable].
Ownership marks: Pro Rhetori So[cieta]tis Iesu [inscription]; Bibliothecae Romano-catholicae ecclesiasticae Academiae Petropolitanae [label].
Microchemical and instrumental analysis: pH – 6,3; Ferric chloride test: positive; Vanillin test: negative; Nitrous acid test: negative; Rhodanine test: positive; Tannin classes: hydrolyzable tannins; ATR-FTIR spectroscopy: gallotannins.