Extent: 74 leaves : paper ; 283 x 195 (230 x 130-142) mm bound to 290 x 210 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Alternate title from 19th-century description (f. ii recto). Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 74 + i (modern paper); [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35 lines, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink. Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script, with later notes in another hand (f. 74r-74v). Decoration: Ink sketch of an initial S with flourishes (f. 1r); ink sketches of initials H and A with flourishes (f. 37v and 38r); small ink sketch of man, possibly in Roman garb, holding large sword attacking what could be a monster or wild animal (f. 62v); small manicules in margins throughout. There are many spaces for missing initials throughout. Binding: 19th-century boards. Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1420. Incipit: Surgit a coena et ponit vestimenta sua (f. 1r). Explicit: ...qui pro nobis passus sit nobis via in vitam aeternam (f. 74r). Gift of Richard W. Foster (sold by R. Wolfle, Munich), 1967.
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