Extent: 324 leaves : paper ; 310 x 213 (238 x 146) mm bound to 320 x 215 mm
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Watermark: Briquet Croix Grecque 5549 (1453); Monts 11788 (1454); Tête de bœuf 14790 (1447-9), 14871 (1434-45), 15096 (1455), and 15104 (1445). Origin: Written in southern or western Germany around 1450. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Ms. codex. Script: Written in various Gothic book hands, hybrid, and secretary scripts. Layout: Written in 2 columns, ruled in lead, ink, or drypoint. Foliation: Paper, 324; [1-324]; modern pencil foliation upper right recto; unnumbered partial leaves between f.315 and f.316, and between f.317 and f.318; leaf with text written on it torn out between f. 165 and 166. Binding: Red calf (stamped with a geometric pattern) over wooden boards; metal cornerpieces and brass bosses. Decoration: Initials in red ink, ranging in size throughout codex from 2 to 11 lines; rubricated capitals and underlining; 6-line decorated initial in red, green and black ink (f. 94r). Sold by Niels Hansen Christensen (Bloomfield, N.J.), 1963.
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