Copy number: D-157(1)

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled leather over thick pasteboards; five bosses on each cover and two clasps lost. On both covers triple fillets form a border, within which, on the upper cover, is a repeated foliate staff stamp, and, on the lower, a repeated scroll stamp; on both covers, triple fillets form the inner rectangle, which is divided into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, decorated with the foliate staff stamp, a small circular double-headed eagle stamp, a lozenge-shaped lion rampant stamp, the scroll stamp, a small circular flower-petal stamp, two small fleurons, three circular floral stamps, a lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp, a rectangular-shaped stag stamp(?), and a small circular star stamp; another floral stamp is used only on the lower cover. The spine is mostly covered with remains of later paper labels, but is decorated with the small flower-petal stamp. Leather index tabs.

Size: 415 × 291 × 87 mm.

Size of leaf: 402 × 278 mm.

On [I9v] the rubricator's note, dated 1497: ‘Finis huius signature tractatuum et capitulorum eorundem in superiori margine huius libri in octaua decollacionis sancti Johannis Baptiste patroni nostri anno domini M°ccccxcvii°. Per fratrem C'.

Initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red, green, or blue; yellow capital strokes. Running headlines and manuscript foliation are supplied in black ink in 1497; see above.

Provenance: Camenz, Silesia, Cistercians; an inscription on [a2r]: ‘Monasterii Beate Marie in Camencz'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 1304(?). Purchased for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1843), 16.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.26.