Copy number: M-182(1)

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [D9-10].

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps and catches lost. On both covers fillets form an outer frame within which is a floral and foliate roll. Further triple fillets form an inner frame, within which is a small flower-petal stamp, and an ornamental roll decorated with lozenges. Triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is decorated with a repeated ornamental roll. Remains of a leather index tab on [t6]. Name of author and title at the head of the spine. Remains of several paper labels on the spine.

Size: 196 × 134 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 184 × 120 mm.

Four-, seven-, and eight-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Johann Georg von Werdenstein (1542-1608); coloured woodcut armorial with lettering; see Warnecke 2434 and Leiningen-Westerburg 337. Munich, Electoral Library of the Dukes of Bavaria; engraved armorial with lettering: ‘Ex Electorali Bibliotheca Sereniss. Vtriusq; Bavariae Ducum', for which see Warnecke 1375, reproduced p. 17, and Dressler–Schröder 23 and 59, Typ B2. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; pencil number ‘3605' on [a2r]. Purchased for £1. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1850), 40.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.55.