Written in a semitexualis formata script with an illuminated foliate frontispiece in colors and burnished gold, decorated foliate initial letter and scraped coat of arms (bottom), with a repainted inscription of "ihs." Decorated foliate initial (f. 43v) and occasional colored initials in red and blue appear at the beginning of texts. Continuous line versification for most texts. Probably... The last text is written in a small cursive script with headings in red, in Greek and Latin. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped tan calf; remains of two clasps. "Petrus Molitor 1572" (inscribed, verso of front flyleaf); "Monasterii S. Vincentii in Bemweil (inscribed, f. 1r); "Ex libris Baltzasari [H]ertwegg 1571" (inscribed, f. 1v); "Sum ex libris Jacobi [Hertwegg] p[ar]och[al]i in Büren[se] 1600" (inscribed, f. 31r); Edward Spencer Curling, Basil 20th Augt. 1816" (inscribed, f. 168v) Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund, 1984.
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