Copy number: C-130(1)

Wanting the blank leaf f8.

Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth.

Size: 205 × 153 × 12 mm.

Size of leaf: 197 × 140 mm.

On a1r a note in an early hand: ‘Ouidius. Pascitur in uiuis Liuor post fata quiescit | Tunc suus ex meritis quemque tuetur honor' [Ov. Am. 1.15.39-40]. In gathering b verse translations of some distichs into German added in an early hand. On b3r: I/25: Das du gereth host bey byr | Das gelobe nymande zwar(?) | Das du myt deyner hobisscheyth | Vor eynen lugner werde gereyth;
b4v: I/30: Waß dich duncket missethan | Daß saltu nycht selber . . . | Denn daß . . . missethan | Thuot her daß her verboten hath; on b5v: I/33: Seynth myth vngewissem schaden | Dys . . . lighe leben ysth beladen | Sho las vnns(?) werg[ ] thun | Den Den menschen(?) tag ha[ ] gewa; on b6v: I/35: Daß kleyn saltu den frunden geben | Von dem du wilt das grosse nemen | Myth sulchen kleynen dingen | Saltu frunde czu samen bringhen;
b7r: I/38: Wenne du wol magest gleychen | Dem saltu entweycen | Wen der do hoth geduldige sitenn | Dem volg;
b7v: I/40: Dw salt czu czeythenn gebehafftych seyn | Szo werestu lib den frundenn deyn | Wen du wirst gluckselych seyn | Szo haben nycht vorgesshen deyn(?). Various pen-trials on f7v.

On a1r an ink drawing of a man holding a stick. On a1v an ink drawing of St Michael and the dragon and a crown. On a2r an initial with grotesque heads is supplied in ink. Some initials are supplied in red, others in ink.

Provenance: ‘Meyne'; on a1r an inscription in a sixteenth-century(?) hand. Purchased in 1864 for £0. 10. 6; see Invoice Book (1862-4, Library Records d. 430).

SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.102.