Ms. codex. The first text (Meditationes) ends imperfectly and the second text (Soliloquia) begins imperfectly in the middle of the second quire. The former lacks the end of Chapter 13 and all of Chapters 14 and 15, as printed in Patrologia latina 184:485-508. The latter lacks a title and the first few sentences, as printed in Patrologia latina 40:863-898. The last quire is a later addition. It is enveloped in a bifolium (fols. 173, 184) which is a palimpsest containing very rough and unfinished tables of contents. Fols. 174-183 present original foliation in rubricated Arabic numerals, which run from 124 to 135,with the exception of numbers 126 and 133. More Arabic numerals appear in the outer and inner margins (sometimes in plain ink, but... The flyleaves and pastedown are medieval parchment with theological notes written in a 14th-century Gothic script. The rear flyleaf contains the date A.D. 1316 in oversized letters. Common wormhole patterns shared by the wooden boards, pastedown, flyleaves, and several folios in front and back indicate that the constituent parts of the codex have been bound together for quite some time... Layout: Fols. 1r-141r written in 2 columns of 24-30 lines, below top line; ruled (with the exception of fol. 96, which is only 195 x 100 mm and has 25 long lines in a written space of 136 x 80 mm). Fols. 141v-172v written in 2 columns of 36-37 lines; ruled. Fols. 174r-183v written in 2 columns of 36-37 lines; ruling is very faint, but prickings are clearly visible. Script: Fols. 1r-172v, round Gothic textual, several hands. Fols. 174r-183v, ordinary Gothic hybrid. Decoration: marginal drawing (fol. 134r). Binding: wooden boards with dark, worm-eaten stamped calf, rebacked in modern calf; all that remains of the clasp are two pins and a swatch of cloth on the front cover and an impress with holes on the back cover; includes medieval parchment pastedown and flyleaves. Origin: written in Italy; 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Provenance: Obtained in Europe, ca. 1893, for the White Library. Possibly from Reichskartause Buxheim, near Memmingen in Bavaria. Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX 51 Related shelfmark: MS. B.14 (De Ricci)
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