Script, f. 1r-v: Cursive. Watermarks, f. 1r-v: Pitcher (anse, in the database) with a crown surmounted by a flower, referring to Ronneburg (in the district of Main-Kinzig, in Hessen, Germany), datable to 1551.
Note:
f. 1; verso is blank: 10 lines of verse in this poem. Notes in English of another poem remain partially visible on the stub of the facing page: . . . breath [and end of next line:] of death; provided thus [and end of next line:] to us; thy brother [and end of next line:] hit Gother. Incipit, f. 1; verso is blank: Dicite Calliope, Molliter ossa cubent. Explicit, f. 1; verso is blank: Vita quid est fragilis nisi flos nisi bulla vel aura / Flos perit, aura volat bulla causa cadit.
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