Penitentiarius written in Germany towards the middle of the fifteenth century; inscription in the lower margin of f. 24v, "anno quadragesimo quarto.". Bound before Albertus, Magnus. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. [Speyer: Peter Drach, not after 1475] (RB 102160). Span folios: ff. 1-38v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Raisin, Briquet 12995, Braunschweig 1438-45, and Ochsenkopf, similar to Piccard, VII, 539, Wurtemburg 1447. Layout: 1-212 314. 2 columns of 28-39 lines frame ruled in ink. Written in a hybrida currens with lemmata in a littera formata. Decoration: Opening initial, 10-line, in red with leaf infilling, framed by written text on 4 sides; lemmata lined through in red; initials within the text touched in red; headings for the text divisions in the margin in red frames. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/26/2012. Inscription on f. 1, upper margin, in an early 15th century hand, "Liber Ecclesiae sancti Nicolai salaeye[?] Latsarinae in Enge...[?]". On the front pastedown, the eighteenth century armorial bookplate of the Premonstratensian abbey of Sayn, near Koblenz.
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