Binding: Bound in stamped leather overs wooden boards with 2 fore edge brass clasps; some gilt tooling.; 15 fore edge tabs to mark major text divisions. Script, ff. 1-78v: Liturgical gothic book hand. Music, ff. 1-78v: On 4-line red staves. Layout, ff. 1-78v: Gatherings of 8, catchwords present, quire and leaf signatures in letter of the alphabet and roman numeral (out of order in 7th quire); 18 long lines of text.
Former Owner(s):
Carthusians of Buxheim; Hugo, Graf von Waldbott-Bassenhim (his sale, Munich, 20 September 1883, lot 2672); Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mayor of San Francisco.
Bibliography: Possibly to be identified with the manuscript described by De Ricci on p. 26 at n. 1 (but wrong text ?, wrong number of leaves, and wrong lot number in Waldbott-Bassenheim sale, which De Ricci says was 2640). ff. 1-78v: On ff. 1-46v, psalter; ff. 46v-58, hymns; ff. 58-78v, office for the dead.
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