Copy number: B-086(1)

Bound with:
1. Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum. Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, 1474 (R‑104(1)).

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two bosses on the upper cover and two clasps lost; spine repaired. Book-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form a triple frame. In the frames and the inner rectangle 11 different stamps: a lozenge-shaped stamp depicting the resurrected Christ, two smaller lozenge-shaped stamps with a swan and a dragon respectively, and a lozenge-shaped stamp lettered ‘S P'; six round stamps: a lamb and flag, an eagle, a rosette, a head of Christ, a stamp lettered ‘ihs' and a ‘M' with a crown; a rectangular stamp (`Laubstab').

Size: 302 × 220 × 70 mm.

Size of leaf: 296 × 206 mm.

On endleaf a table of contents in a contemporary hand. On [h8v] of item 1, a note on the wedding of Johann II, Duke of Cleves, 1489: ‘Anno domini Mcccclxxxix tercia Nouembris scilicet ipso die sancti Huperti episcopi Johannes dux Cliuensis et comes de Marka matrimonium ducens in vxorem filiam hynrici lantgrauie hassie in sutato . . . sauit'; see Stokvis III 47. Occasional marginal notes in item 2. Manuscript signatures throughout. On [C6v] a list of archbishops and their suffragans in a contemporary hand.

On [a1r] a five-line initial is supplied in red with reserved white decoration. On [a1r]–[a₃r] initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes.

Provenance: On [h8r] of item 1, ‘Anno domini 1486 vnus roburnus emebatur role[win]^c pro 6 hall[er] c[ir]ca lamb[er]ti'. Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM; ‘Carthusiæ in Buxheim' and stamp. Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-1895); Buxheim sale, lot 3077. Purchased by Falconer Madan for the Bodleian in 1884 for 11 Marks; see Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; see also Honemann, ‘Buxheim Collection', Bod10.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 4.17(2).