Copy number: C-029(1)

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, five bosses and two clasps on each cover lost; backed with blind-tooled half pigskin; pigskin strip along the lower edge. Tawed leather index tabs. The calf on both covers is decorated with fillets, which form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by fillets into triangular compartments. In the compartments and the upper and lower sections of the frame are two different floral stamps, a stamp with three acorns, and two different lozenge-shaped stamps; in the outer section of the frame a floral border with a small acorn stamp and a small lozenge-shaped stamp. The pigskin strips and back are decorated with two renaissance rolls.

Size: 406 × 300 × 170 mm.

Size of leaf: 390 × 270 mm.

Early marginal notes by Johannes Stainer in red and brown ink. Occasional running headlines in red ink.

On [a2r] an eight-line initial is supplied in red with reserved white decoration and floral pen-work infill and frame (Maiblumen) in brown and red ink; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance: Johannes Stainer (fifteenth century); inscriptions on old front pastedown and elsewhere; on [a2r] and on [² b9r] his painted shield bearing a bird on a triple mound, lettered in red ‘mira dura(?) buffa', above, ‘J', and below, ‘S'. Herrenwörth (Herrenchiemsee), Augustinian Canons, S. Salvator; inscription on [a2r]. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; on [a1r] old shelfmark ‘Inc. Typ. N^ro 845' and ‘Duplum'. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q inf. 1.12.

Copy number: C-029(2)

Fragment. Not in Sheppard.

Leaves B1, D1, and D8 only, cropped at the right-hand edge.

Bound in a collection of German fragments.

Size of fragments: 335 × 217 mm.

Provenance: On D8r two inscriptions: ‘J. Ranke . . .' and ‘B. Banis'. Date of acquisition unknown.

SHELFMARK: Inc. c. GS7.1(1).