Ms. codex. In Latin and German. Title from contents, Index responsiorum. Secundo folio: In praesentia SS. Eucharistiae. Collation: Parchment, fol. 78 ; 13 2-58 67 79 88 97 (11 leaves missing) 104 118 (last leaf blank) ; catchwords in lower margin at end of quires 2, 3, 7, 8. Layout: 3 staves per page. Script: Written in a mix of gothic and humanist hands. Decoration: Some rubricated staves with hufnagel schrift notation and large initials in black, red and blue. Binding: Half blind-tooled pigskin over oblong pasteboard covered in parchment manuscript leaves, the whole brown-stained. Brass clasps with leather straps, nails and impressions in cover are evidence of now missing corner and center hardware. Signatures loose in binding. Origin: Written in Germany in the 16th century. Provenance: Vernacular (German) text on fol. 75r-76v in a second hand suggests German origin. With inscription of former owner: "Jacobus Suter jure me possidet" a possible date (or shelfmark) of 1577, a quotation "Firmissime opes amor" possibly of Juan Luis Vives (d. 1540) Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Antiquarian Books of Boston in 2005. Call number: MS q Med.249.
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