Extent: 184 leaves : parchment and paper ; 150 x 104 (113 x 72) mm bound to 160 x 110 mm
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Collation: Paper and parchment, 184; 1-15¹² 16⁴; work 1 has catchwords on the lower center verso of the last page of each quire; quires 13-14 have outer and inner conjugate leaves made of parchment; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; contemporary foliation (f. 2-3) in ink for work 4, upper right recto. Origin: Written in Germany during the second quarter of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Ms. codex. Binding: Near contemporary sheepskin with parchment fragment of a 13th-century manuscript on falconry inside covers (Zacour-Hirsch), which includes text from sections 19-22, 27, and 30 of a treatise titled Guillelmus falconarius inside the upper cover and text from sections 16-17 of a treatise titled Dancus rex inside the lower cover (Baudouin Van den Abeele). Decoration: Occasional initials embellished with red; several manicules drawn in lead in the margins (f. 102v, 103v, 109v, 112v, 114r, 122v). Script: Works 1-3 written in a hybrid script, work 4 in a secretary script, Gothic script on pastedowns. Layout: Ruled in ink. Title from predominant work, included in table of contents (f. 1r). Sold by Fritz Eggert (Stuttgart), 1969. A note on ownership, has been cut out of the manuscript (f. 1r), though the spine still has a call number, E.i.57.
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