Extent: 216; 460 x 111 mm bound to 510 x 113 mm; paper
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Back cover broken off, with subsequent damage to the last three leaves. Fol. 214 with losses barely touching text; fol. 215 with the loss of one quarter of the text; fol. 216 with loss of half of the text. Binding: Original wooden boards, cut flush with the book block, covered with red leather, flat spine with three raised bands, sewn on three double cords, tail bands now missing but the thread once wound around it is extant, impressions from two clasps visible on the upper board, in fragile condition, front cover scuffed and worn at the edges, partially detached (only attached by bottom cord... Layout: Twenty to twenty-four lines frame-ruled in ink with all four bounding lines full length; written area: 95-92 x 60-58 mm; with extensive marginal notes and apparatus Script: Hybrida Script: Scribe: Johannes Tyrolf Decoration: Guide letters visible within many initials, majuscules within text highlighted in red, red running titles including Arabic numerals numbering each text, red paragraph marks and underlining within text, three- to two-line red initials, many with decorative extensions Provenance: Copied in 1435 by a known scribe, Johannes Tyrolf (who also signed his name "Tyrell"), in Southern Germany, and presumably in Regensburg where Tyrolf lived. The manuscript is signed by the scribe numerous times: fol. 3, upper margin, "Johannes Tyrell propria manus"; fol. 145v, with the date, 1435 on the feast of St. Erasmus (June 2); fol. 159, 1435, on the feast of St. Alban (June...
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