Copy number: A-112(1)

Bound with:
2. Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus curatorum. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 20 Dec. 1495 (G‑289);
3. Confessionale, Interrogationes et doctrinae. [Ulm: Johann Zainer, c.1490] (C‑416);
4. Bonaventura, Meditationes vitae Christi. [Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, c.1497-8] (B‑442).

Variant printer's name: ‘parenghis', as in copies in Munich, University Library, and Strasbourg; see GW Anm.

Binding: Contemporary German (Weissenau, Kyriß workshop no. 35) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal clasp. Reinforcing slips from a parchment manuscript. On both covers fillets form a double frame; within the outer is a roll of dragons; the inner rectangle is divided by diagonal triple fillets into four compartments. In the compartments are a circular stamp with an angel, and a stamp with a cross; for the stamps see Kyriß pl. 79, nos 1-3.

Size: 218 × 160 × 51 mm.

Size of leaf: 207 × 151 mm.

Provenance: Jakob Murer (fl. 1498); inscription on endleaf: ‘Fratris jacobi mure[r] tunc temporis curatoris in vmendaref [Ummendorf, near Biberach, Bavaria] xvciij', followed by list of contents in the same hand. Weissenau, Württemberg, diocese of Konstanz, Premonstratensians, SS. Petrus et Paulus; on a2r of the first item the inscription: ‘Biblioth. Weißenau'. Bonaventura Brem (1755-1818); armorial book-plate with initials ‘B[onaventura] A[bt] Z[u] W[eissenau]'. Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 143, no. 515(1), for 15 Marks; see Library Bills, 7 May 1884.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.78(1).