Layout: 2 columns, 32 lines Decoration: 1 4-line and 4-staff high initial, 3 2-line initials, and 2 1-line and 1-staff high initial in alternating red and blue Decoration: 7 1-line and 1-staff high cadel-style initials in brown ink with red highlights, with prompts, rubrics, and line fillers in red Ruled in brown ink Running title = "xli" 4-line musical staves in brown ink with hufnagelshcrift notation Provenance: Formerly the property of Otto Ege, Cleveland, OH. Ege broke this manuscript and distributed 40 of its folios as part of his portfolio set, Fifty Original Leaves. See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 22 Provenance: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Warburg, Germany (1682) Provenance: Previously owned by Leander von Ess (1769-1850) Provenance: Previously owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) Provenance: Original parent manuscript sold by Sotheby’s, 1 December 1947, lot 92 The manuscript was likely produced in Würzburg but had migrated to Warburg for use in the parish church of St. John the Baptist by 1682, according to a Latin inscription on the manuscript’s endleaf before it was broken and dispersed by Otto Ege Incipit: …senti vita misterium : fiat eterni / tatis auxilium Explicit: Quoniam angelis suis mandavit de te ut custodian te Postcommunio and collect for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, with text for the Mass on the first Sunday of Lent
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