Binding: Original blind stamped calf over wooden boards, with unusual stamps of a running hound and the evangelical lion of Saint Mark on the top cover, with clasp, in maroon morocco case Layout: One added leaf in front, eleven at the end; some musical notation on 4 occasionally 5 line staves; 1 column of 16 lines; prickings visible on some folios Script: Gothic Decoration: Capitals in red and blue; musical staves and rubrication in red Provenance: Belonged to a Dominican nunnery of the Holy Cross, possibly at Asperg, Württemberg; note dated 1498 concerning two nuns: Maria Holtzschüchin and Agnes Rüdolfin; note dated 1591 by the nunnery's confessor, Fr. Mathias Dillinganus, and another early 17th century note by his successor, Fr. R. Han; later in a South German nunnery; Rush C. Hawkins sale, New York, March 21, 1887, no...
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