Copy number: P-283(1)

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, dated 1490, with metal clasp and catch. Manuscript title along the lower edge. On the upper cover, double fillets form a triple frame. Within the outer frame a floral and foliate stamp; within the following frame a foliate stamp; the inner rectangle is decorated with 12 five-petalled flower stamps. On the lower cover, diagonal double fillets divide the area into triangular compartments, decorated with the foliate stamp; a five-petalled flower at each intersection of the fillets. Rebacked. Leather index tab on [A1].

Size: 143 × 103 × 43 mm.

Size of leaf: 137 × 100 mm.

Parchment endleaves from a deed in German, dated 1371 (for a transcript see MS. Germ. b. 3, fol. 4).

At the end are bound 36 manuscript leaves containing a substantial set of prayers for the meditation at the Passion; also dicta by the doctors of the church, and a hymn, 'Qui fui sacre fidei' (ex informatione Nigel Palmer). A cut by Virgil Solis (1514-1562) of Christ before Pilate copied from Dürer's 'Little Passion' is pasted inside the upper cover; it is discussed in a note by C. F. Bell dated 22 Feb. 1921 and pasted onto front endleaf.

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Eras[mus] Bannsz (fl. c.1500); name on the front endleaf. Johannes Velber (fl. c.1500); name on the rear pastedown. Purchased on 24 Apr. 1884 from James E. Cornish for £0. 12. 0; see Library Bills (1884), no. 98.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.3.