Copy number: M-136(1)

Wanting the gathering containing the table.

Binding: Contemporary German (Kyriß workshop no. 165) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Two clasps and catches and five circular bosses on each cover lost. Two parchment strips from a twelfth-century noted liturgical manuscript used as a bookmark. On both covers are merrythought panels made up from headed-outline tools, a lozenge-shaped floral and unicorn stamp, with a small circular floral stamp at each angle of the stamps and at the intersection of the panels; see Kyriß pl. 331, nos 1 and 7, and pl. 332.

Size: 218 × 160 × 27 mm.

Size of leaf: 208 × 143 mm.

On a1r an inscription in an early German hand: Quid inuocat riposus odiosus luridus inuidus dominus | Mors imperat regibus odiosas linguas iudicat dominus . . .' On o8r, beneath the colophon, a manuscript copy of the epitaph of Johannes Paret de Gruen, Doctor of Theology, 31 Aug. 1497, in the church of Braunau: ‘Iohannis Pareyt doctoris venerabilis epitaphium. Hic sepultus est sacre theologie doctor laureatissimus mireque probitatis et deuotionis vir clarissimus Ioannes pareyt de gruen qui verbo et exemplo fideliter populum instruxit pridie kl. septembris anno 1497. | Hoc epitaphium ipso doctore mortuo per quendam Ioannem Scolasticum [ ]ciplius moderatorem augmentatoremque commendatissimum in opido prauonau non immerito confectum saxoque marmoreo ad sepulcrum inscriptum iudicem benignum expectantis doctoris'. A few other marginal notes, mainly names of saints, in sixteenth-century German hands.

Initials are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Marcus Agricola (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r in a German humanist hand: ‘Marcus Agricola | Non est personarum respectus apud Deum'. ‘Rancke[ ]', also on the same leaf. Kelheim, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Maria; stamp on a1r. Probably a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘2112' in pencil on o8v. Purchased from Caspar Haugg for 7 Marks, see Catalogue 76, no. 308; Library Bills (1885), no. 206.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 6.28.