Ms. codex. In German. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: [fol. 3] ...mich in deiner... Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + ii + 87 + ii +i (paper) ; 112 28 312 48 512+3 68 712−1 818−4 (fol. 53-55 singletons; one cancel after fol. 73; final four leaves cancelled) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each recto, skips the folio after 63 and so reaches 87 instead of 88. Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines in red ink, doubled and full-length. Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: 2-line initials throughout in colors and gold with half- or three-quarter-foliate border, throughout (35 in all); six 7-line initials in similar style with half-border; full-page miniatures on fol. 1v (St. Margaret) and 87 (St. Peter). Binding: Modern period style blind-stamped brown goatskin over boards, bevelled at center edges, gilt-fillet turn-ins, marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves front and back, all edges gilt, board edges blind-tooled, spine blind-stamped in compartments; stored in cardboard slipcase covered with pastel marbled paper. Origin: Written in E. Germany/Austria in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Provenance: Early twentieth-century bookplate of Ad[olphe] Lefrancq, curator of the Musée de Valenciennes, inside front cover. Sold by Zisska & Kistner, Catalogue 22: Handschriften, Autographen, seltene Bucher, part I (25 October, 1993), nr. 3 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 513). Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Bruce Ferrini, 1993. Call number: MS q Med.242. Former call number: MS q 2833.
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