Extent: 60 leaves : parchment ; 128 x 80 (87 x 57) mm bound to 130 x 85 mm
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). The second section (f. 16r) begins with the same introduction as the first. Notarial statement, with seal, of Natalis Wassonius de Pontemontione (f. 59r-v). Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 60 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-60, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines; ruled in ink; prickings visible. Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand, with notarial statement and owner note in two different hands (f. 59r-59v). Decoration: 12-line penwork initial in brown ink (f. 1r); 10-line penwork initial in brown ink (f. 16r). Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards. Inside upper cover has a 4.5 cm. diameter circular hole. One clasp intact. Origin: Written in Metz[?] between 1489 and 1490 (Zacour-Hirsch). Date of 1490 given on f. 15r. Evidence of worm damage in boards. Ownership inscription: Iste liber est de conventu fratrum minorum Sagunsium (f. 59v). Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1957.
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