Collation: 33 quires, 8 folios each except the last (fols. 265-269 plus back parchment flyleaf, originally short). Script: Written in a late Gothic hand, probably of the 14th century, in black ink. Layout: Written in 2 columns; ruled in black ink. Decoration: Chapter titles in the text and titles of the corresponding Biblical books in the headlines are in vermilion; versals at the beginnings of chapters are alternately vermilion and blue. Versals marking the beginnings of books are executed in vermilion with fine tracework in mauve or blue with tracework in vermilion, with occasional shading of spaces in green or yellow wash. Binding: Panel-stamped calf over boards, probably original; rebacked. Bears an originally gold-stamped pair of oval-framed monograms within a blind-stamped rectangular border. The monogram, which is repeated in both ovals, is A. M. Pax. The upper oval contains also an eagle, the lower an inscriptions, "Ex pace ubertas. Anno D[omi]ni M CCCC LVXX" (From peace, prosperity. The year of the Lord... According to a clipping from the dealer's catalogue pasted on the inside of the front cover, the manuscript came "From the Conventual Library of Ochsenhausen" (Wurtemberg). The manuscript was offered for sale by E.P. Goldschmidt (catalogue XV, item 11, pages 6-7), from whom it was acquired in 1929 by J. M. Manly of the University of Chicago English Department as the gift of Martin A. Ryerson.
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