Copy number: G-091(1)

Bound with:
1. Isidorus Hispalensis, De summo bono. Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt, not after Apr. 1470] (I‑031(3));
3. Johannes Gerson, De trahendis ad Christum parvulis. Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt, c.1470] (G‑119);
4. Hugo de Novo Castro, De victoria Christi contra Antichristum. Nicolaus de Cusa, De ultimis diebus mundi. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt], 1471 (H‑227(2)).

Wanting [a7-8]: these last two leaves, containing on the rectos the text of [a1v] and [a2v] differently set up, have been cut away.

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; five metal bosses on each cover; two metal catches and clasps. On both covers triple fillets form intersecting concentric frames. Within the inner frame, on the upper cover is a fleuron and a rosette, and on the lower cover the rosette and a lozenge-shaped eagle stamp. Further triple fillets form an inner rectangle, divided by double fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, on the upper cover each containing a lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp, the eagle stamp, two small flower-petal stamps, of a small star stamp, and, on the lower, the fleur-de-lis stamp, the fleuron, or one of the small flower-petal stamps. Dyed leather index tabs. Remains of a manuscript label on the spine, and the scar of a manuscript label on the upper cover.

Size: 338 × 226 × 42 mm.

Size of leaf: 318 × 217 mm.

Impression of text left on both boards from twelfth-century German(?) manuscript leaves used as pastedowns.

Initials, some with reserved white decoration, paragraph marks, and running folio numbers are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red; all uniform throughout the volume.

Provenance: Hillersleben, Saxony, Benedictines, S. Laurentius; inscription on the recto of the front endleaf of item 1: ‘Liber sancti Laurentii martyris in Hildesleue ordinis sancti Benedicti prope Oram [i.e. the river Ohre] Halu'stad' [Halberstadt] Dyoceß'; the rest of the inscription is cancelled. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label on a slip of paper; sale (1835), lot 2183. Purchased for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 15.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q inf. 2.1(2).