Written and dated by Quirinus Duel (f. 97r), "Explicit liber ... de diligendo Deo finitus per Quirinum Duel 1436 in vigilia Penthecostes [26 May]." Written in a later German cursive script in brown ink chiefly on paper (some vellum leaves bound in) with colored initials and paraphes in red. Bound in stamped calf over wooden boards. In a protective tray case, 24 cm. Belonged to a convent of the Common Life (later Augustinian), in Venray in Hesselen (inscribed in a contemporary hand, f. 1r), "Liber pauperum sororum regularium in Jerusalem prope Venray in terra Hesselen[ensis]"; Paul Edouard Didier, comte de Riant, purchased from Rosenthal for 24 mk. in 1886(?). Gift of J. Randolph Coolidge and Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1899.
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