Copy number: P-336(1)

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal catch, clasp lost. On both covers triple fillets form the outer frame, within which, on the upper cover, are a circular Virgin and Child stamp and a second circular stamp now too worn for identification, and, on the lower cover, two stamps, one lozenge-shaped, the other tear-drop-shaped, both too worn for identification. On both covers further triple fillets form the inner rectangle, which is divided by sets of triple fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, and decorated with a lozenge-shaped eagle(?) stamp and a small rectangular floral stamp. Author and title in black ink at the head of the spine; at the tail of the spine are remains of a paper manuscript label with a shelfmark in red, now covered by the Bodleian's shelf label.

Size: 248 × 180 × 68 mm.

Size of leaf: 237 × 162 mm.

The author's name and the title are written in a fifteenth-century hand on the recto of the front endleaf, in the same hand as the one that wrote the donation inscription.

One- to six-line initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, underlining, and signatures are supplied in red.

Provenance: Hilbrand Brandenburg (1442-1514); coloured woodcut book-plate (Warnecke 245). Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM; inscription on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘liber Cartusiensium in Buchshaim prope Memmingen proueniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdote continens ut superius oretur pro eo et pro quibus desiderauit'; stamp on [a1r]. Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-1895); Buxheim sale, lot 3326. Purchased by Falconer Madan for the Bodleian in 1884 for 7 Marks; see Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; pencil note on the remains of an old paper endleaf, now attached to the modern front pastedown; also Honemann, ‘Buxheim Collection', Bod30.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.47.