Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Folio paper with watermarks: [p] similar to Briquet 8685 (Düsseldorf, 1464) in the first text, a bull's head similar to Piccard II.vii.385 (Lichtenberg, 1458) in the second. 1-712, 81, 9-2212, 236−5 (cancels). Folio 85 is a singleton that begins the second text. Quires 1-7 [text 1] signed a-g. Catchwords preserved. Modern pencil foliation, every ten folios. 9-line initials on ff. 2... Layout:1 column, 35 lines; bounding lines ruled in light plummet (1st work); 2 columns, 37-40; bounding lines ruled in brown ink (2nd work) Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in brown ink; red rubrics (1st work). Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink; red rubrics (2nd work) Origin: Written in Germany in the early-fifteenth century, the second text (which is codicologically distinct from the first) dated 1419. Among the Vitae Sanctorum are typical German saints Blasian, Afra, Oswald, Henry II, and others.
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