Pages numbered in pencil in a later hand. Provenance: The German manuscript was likely brought to Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire, by Father Adrian Towers, the last monk who pofessed in the monastery of Lamspringe, near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony. When Lamspringe was dissolved in 1803 at the behest of Napoleon I, the monastic properties were secularized and auctioned, but some prized manuscripts were transferred to England along with the... Bound in later black half calf with marbled boards, red edges, and library label on spine and interior front pastedown.
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