Ms. date suggested by date assigned to woodcut; cf. Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts / von W.L. Schreiber. Leipzig : Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1926, no. 651. See also Pen to press ... / by Sandra Hindman and James Douglas Farquhar. [College Park, Md.]: Art Dept., Univ. of Maryland, 1977, p. 104-108 on dates of the "hybrid book", which, like the Eichstätt prayer book... Text in a readable semi-cursive gothic hand in brown and red ink, with a few additions and corrections in blue; caption headings and underlinings in red; ornamental initials in red, green, and blue; red and green line fillers. Full-page hand-colored woodcut in red, blue, green, and ocher (75 x 55 mm.) is affixed to verso of leaf [39], portraying the flagellation of Christ, with the unusual addition of the figures of the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist watching from a window above in the background. Watermark of a one-handled jug ("Pot à une anse"); cf. Briquet 12546. Laid in: small ms. fragment with prickings visible along one edge; and a small heart-shaped illustration of the Pietà. Presentation inscription in German from the bishop, dated 1848 in Breslau, on front pastedown.
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