Copy number: O-036(1)

Bound with B‑189(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.

Size of leaf: 271 × 194 mm.

Wanting the blank leaf r10.

‘1131' in brown ink on the verso of the front endleaf. On r9v bibliographical notes in Dutch in a nineteenth-century hand. On rear endleaf, three lines of devotional text in an eighteenth-century hand, in Dutch.

Initials are supplied in red or blue, some with reserved white decoration. Capital strokes in red.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.43(2).

Copy number: O-036(2)

Wanting the blank leaves [*1] and r10. Leaf [*4] bound before [*2].

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf, with sprinkled red-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.

Size: 290 × 205 × 70 mm.

Size of leaf: 275 × 200 mm.

The woodcuts are coloured in red, green, and yellow. Principal initials are supplied in blue or interlocked red and blue, with reserved white decoration and red pen-work decoration, touched with green wash, extending into the margin to form a border. Decoration from Haarlem; see M. Hülsmann and R. Nieuwstraten, ‘Haarlem en Noord-Holland', Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen: Randversiering in Nordneederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw, ed. A. S. Korteweg (Zutphen, 1992), 84-115 and pl. 80. Other initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Haarlem, Netherlands, Franciscan Tertiary Nuns, S. Anna; inscription on r9r: ‘Dit boec hoert toe den susteren van sinte Marien conuent binnē Haerlem in sinte Jans straet en̄ heeft ghege[n]en pieternel dircs(?) d' en̄ marijtgen maertens d' onse susteren tot een testement'. Purchased from Asher & Co. for £2. 15. 0; see Library Bills (1851-5), 77; Books Purchased (1853), 65.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.23.