Copy number: D-188(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf (c.1825) for the Bodleian Library; the spine gold-tooled; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Knotted parchment index tabs.

Size: 312 × 228 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 301 × 210 mm.

On [a3r] a 16-line initial Q is supplied in interlocked red and blue within a pale pink frame of mayflowers; in the area defined by the letter is foliate pen-work decoration in red and reserved white on a green gound; some other principal initials are supplied in a similar style. The nine-line initial on [a3r] and some smaller initials are supplied in a similar style. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance: Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Collis Mariae (Marienbrink), Augustinian Nuns; on parchment endleaf an inscription: ‘Liber domus Sororum Collismarie in Coesfeldia'. Johannes Ignaz Zur Mühlen (eighteenth century); on [a1v] armorial book-plate, see Warnecke 1334. On [a1v] an inscription: ‘Purchased at Hamburgh 1825' for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 9.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 2.8.