Dates and identification of scribe from verso of last leaf: "Arata p[er] Leonardum Bernecker de Monte Arido Anno M.cccc.lxxii0"; and below "De Uita & obitu s[an]ctar[um] soror[um] opusculu[m] finit foel[icite]r p[er] me Leonardu[m] Berneker de Mo[n]te Arido Parisyus exaratu[m] anno &c. 1490." Text in roman letters in faded black and red ink, 28-30 lines per p.; body of text and running titles lightly ruled in red, with pricking along outer margins of each page; captions and notes in left and right margins; large initial capitals in red and brown, and numerous small capitals and paragraph marks in red. Pasteover corrections on rectos of leaves [11] and [15]; pasteover used to obscure first colophon, with date of 1472, has been removed. Includes index. Probably copied from a book of sermons or lives of the saints, as suggested by index entries for saints not discussed in the ms. (from "Agatha" to "Ursula"), and by the number of leaves listed: 429. Watermark: anchor, similar to Briquet 394, 395. Possibly the ms. described in the Acta sanctorum of the Société des Bollandistes as "Vita seu legenda trium sororum Mariae Virginis, Maria Jacobi, Mariae Salome," written in French by Carme Jean de Vinette, and later translated into Latin and expanded by Jean Droven, who claimed to have been miraculously healed in 1423 by the two Marys. Possibly the ms. formerly owned by Queen Christina of Sweden, and now at the Bibliotheca apostolica Vaticana; cf. Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova ... / autore R.P.D. Bernardo de Montfaucon. Parisiis : Apud Briasson, 1739, I:16, no. 35; and Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis. Bruxelles : Société des Bollandistes, 1992, p. 803, no. 1. For additional information, consult the Special Collections Info File.
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