Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Collation: Paper, i + 38 + i; 1-210 38 410; 1-5, [v], 6-10, [v], 11-14, [iv], 15-19, [v]; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; quires signed a-d on numbered pages. Layout: Written in 30 long lines, ruled in light ink. Script: Written in a semigothic cursive script. Decoration: Sprinkled edges; guide letters in margins for missing decorated initials. Binding: Modern boards. Origin: Written in Germany in 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch). Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Mar. 1825, lot 256. Sold in the collection of Richard Heber at auction by Evans (London), 10 Feb. 1836, lot 1358. Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (London, 1773-1843, engraved bookplate bearing coat-of-arms inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. B. c. 7; engraved bookplate bearing the Maltese cross of the Order of Bath on the recto of the first flyleaf) at auction by Evans (London), 31 July 1844, lot 408. Sold in the Boyle collection at auction by Stan. V. Henkels (Philadelphia), 17 Feb. 1930, lot 486. Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1965.
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