Layout: 2 columns, 42-52 lines Decoration: 2 4-line initals in alternating red and black with penwork in the contrasting color; numerous 1-line pilcrows in red, with textual lemmata underlined in red Occasional contemporary marginal annotations. Each fragment represents part of the same original folio, divided horizontally. Early inscription (16th-century?) written in black ink in the intercolumnar space on 466.2v: "Me iure tenet Sebastianus Severus..." Provenance: Possible 16th-century(?) owner of the incunabulum in which each fragment was recycled as a pastedown: Sebastianus Severus Vendor indicated that both fragments once served as pastedowns in a ca. 1480 German incunabulum Incipit: [heavily abraded text] Explicit: vel caue ne perdamus Text from an alphabetical encyclopedia with entries for the letters A and B, including terms such as "abstinentia," "adolescentia," "amaritudo," "amor," "anima," "baptismus," "beata virgo," and "bonus"
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