Copy number: J-039(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, rebound for the Bodleian, but with the contemporary German blind-tooled calf lower cover laid down over the nineteenth-century one; rebacked. On the lower cover fillets form concentric frames. Within the outer frame is a cresting roll, within the middle frame a foliate roll, and within the inner frame a foliate staff roll. Further fillets form the inner rectangle containing merrythoughts, each containing a fleuron.

Size: 308 × 225 × 41 mm.

Size of leaf: 297 × 205 mm.

Occasional marginal annotations, including early ones in red ink. ‘Maria hilpf' in red in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on [a1r], and ‘Et sic est finis huius operis' in red, perhaps in the hand of Pogner, on [A2r].

On [a1r] a sixteen-line stylized initial ‘U' is supplied in blue and green foliate decoration, with foliate extensions into the margins in red, yellow, blue, green, and grey; other decoration, consisting of stylized plants and birds, in the margins in the same colours. Other three- to five-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, some rubrics, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red. Rubrication by Erasmus Pogner, Landshut(?), c.1500; inscription on [C6r]: ‘Amen. Erasmus Pogner de Lannd’  ’.

Provenance: Munich, Jesuits; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Collegii Societatis IESV Monachii'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; shelfmark on [a1r]: ‘134 Inc. Typ.' Albert Cohn; Catalogue 159, either no. 320 or no. 321. Purchased from Cohn, 26 Apr. 1884, for either 18 or 15 Marks; see Library Bills; note in pencil (probably by Madan) on [a1r].

SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.3.

Copy number: J-039(2)

Binding: Contemporary Austrian (1484) calf over wooden boards, bound by Brother Martinus in 1484 (inscription on [a1r]: ‘Frater Martinus de B legat 1484'); four corner-pieces, five bosses on each cover, and two clasps and catches lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the lower cover. On both covers double fillets form an outer frame within which is repeated a scroll stamp ‘S. Maria ui[rgo?]' and a larger scroll stamp, not read. Further double fillets form the inner rectangle within which is a kerbed rope-like fillet, and an inscription in Bavarian or Upper Austrian, which is continued in the scrolls inside the inner rectangle; the rectangle is also decorated with a repeated circular floral stamp. For the text of the scrolls and its language, and a discussion of the method of production from movable type, see Götz von Selle, ‘Einbände mit Schriftbändern im oberösterreich-bayrischen Dialekt aus der zweiten Hälfte des xv. Jahrhunderts', Jahrbuch der Einbandskunst, 3/4 (1931), 32-7; for a description of a similar binding see Goldschmidt 145, no. 16. On the upper cover von Selle's text 1-4 (3 now badly damaged/worn, 2 and 4 damaged/worn in places) forms the frame beginning in the upper left-hand corner, text 5 in the upper left-hand scroll, text 6 in the lower left (now very worn), text 7 in the lower right (worn), text 8 in the upper right scroll (slightly damaged). On the lower cover texts 9-12 are in the frame beginning in the lower right-hand corner (9 and 10 partly damaged, 11 very worn), text 14 in the upper right-hand scroll, text 15 in the upper left-hand scroll (slightly damaged), text 13 in the lower right-hand scroll, and text 16 in the lower left-hand scroll (badly damaged). Parchment reinforcing slips in several gatherings: those between gatherings [a] and [b], and between [B] and [C], have been taken from an early twelfth-century liturgical manuscript with musical notation, the slip between [B] and [C] being decorated in red, blue, and green.

Size: 320 × 227 × 61 mm.

The front pastedown contains a list of expenses of a farm near Vienna (Zieselmauer), written in two columns in German in a fifteenth-century(?) hand. The rear pastedown contains part of a calendar of blood-letting, from Mar. to Dec., written in two columns and dated 1479: ‘Martius. Feria quarta ante Gregory praeter nates. Dominico post Gregory optime praeter coxas. Feria quinta post Gregory optime praeter crura . . .' Also four lines of verse(?) in a fifteenth-century(?) hand in red: Incipit: ‘Quid valet argumentum quid [ ] [damaged] | Cum breui fossa caro sanguis claudantur [damaged]'.

Marginal notes in various fifteenth- to sixteenth-century hands, including comments on the text, corrections to the text, some extraction of keywords, ‘nota' marks and numbers, and underlining in the text in black ink. Various notes on [a1r] are by Alexander Bischoff.

Two- to sixteen-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining of the first line of each legend are supplied in red.

Provenance: Georgius Christophorus (sixteenth century?); name on [a1r]. Gundacker, Baron zu Polheim, Lichtenegg und Steinhaus (b. 1575). Alexander Bischoff (fl. 1609); inscription on [a1r]: ‘G. S. Ex dono illustris ac generosi domini domini Gundallaci baronis a Polhaimb in Kam Lichtenegg et Steinhaus duabus ibidem utriusque Engelhardstetten et Schneberg possessoris Sac. Ces. Reg. que Hung. Maj. consiliarii domini sancti Clementis jure me possidet Alexander Episcopus Lesnicensis Libonotius [cancelled] anno reparatæ salutis 1609 27 Novemb. In arce Kam.' Abraham Daubel (†1664?); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Sum Abrahami Daubl Neustadiensis ad Orilam'. Christian Daubel (fl. 1664); inscription on [a2r]: ‘Iure hæreditario me possidere incepit Christianus Daubel, 1664'. Charles Clifford (fl. 1838); signature and date on [a1r]. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased 9 June 1944 from Francis Edwards for £32. 0. 0; accession no. ‘R225'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.

SHELFMARK: Broxb. 33.1.