Copy number: T-157(1)

Sheet E4.7 is printed with the same types as the rest of the book, not as BMC note.

Binding: Contemporary German (Augsburg, Kyriß workshops nos 63 and 82) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with two metal clasps and catches. Triple fillets form a triple frame. Within the outer frame a crocketed cresting roll and a floral and foliate one. Within the following one a foliate staff roll and a bunch of grapes roll. In the inner rectangle curved-outline tools make up merrythoughts, each containing a fleuron. The spine is decorated with a repeated headed outline stamp; rolls and stamps include Kyriß pl. 167, nos 1-4, also pl. 129, no. 3.

Size: 314 × 218 × 70 mm.

Size of leaf: 304 × 204 mm.

Parchment leaves from a twelfth-century missal, Proprium de tempore, Easter time, pasted inside the covers.

A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary hand, in very faded red ink.

On a2r a large initial ‘M' is supplied in blue. Other initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red.

Provenance:  Purchased from John Mozley Stark for £1. 1. 0; see Library Bills (1856-8), 139; Books Purchased (1856), 4.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.51.

Copy number: T-157(2)

Sheet E4.7 is printed with the same types as the rest of the book, not as BMC note.

Binding: Contemporary German (Liesborn) blind-tooled calf, with two metal catches and clasps. At the head of the spine a sixteenth/seventeenth-century manuscript title in brown ink on a rectangular paper label. ‘B C | 39' in black ink on the last part of the tail of the spine, painted white. Double fillets form a triple frame. Within the outer frame, a rectangular decorative stamp, rectangular ‘Cosmas' and Damianus' stamps, circular ‘Ihs' and rosette stamps, a small lozenge-shaped star stamp, and small six-petalled flowers. The following frame is decorated with the two circular ‘Ihs' and rosette stamps, a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp, the star stamp, and a shield-shaped eagle stamp. Diagonal double fillets divide the inner rectangle into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, each decorated with the curcular ‘Ihs' and rosette stamps, the star stamp, a larger circular rosette stamp, a large lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp, and with the six-petalled flower stamp at each intersection. The impression of thirteenth-century manuscripts used as pastedowns, but now removed, is still visible inside both covers. Strips from the same manuscript are still visible in the binding.

Size: 312 × 215 × 65 mm.

Size of leaf: 307 × 205 mm.

A parchment leaf containing the calendar from Sept. to Dec. from a thirteenth-century manuscript, in two columns, is now loose inside the front cover. This leaf was clearly used as a pastedown (traces of copper rust and glue), but its text and script do not seem to match the impression on the boards.

The signatures f2, f4, and G1-3, printed in error in capitals, have been corrected in an early hand in brown ink. Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key concepts, and ‘nota' marks in an early hand in brown ink, mostly on q8v –r1r. A correction on r8r. A few other similar notes in a different early hand in brown ink.

On a2r a large initial ‘M' is supplied in interlocked red and blue with reserved white decoration, within a ground made of blue and red pen-work decoration with extension into the margin. Other main initials are supplied in red with reserved white decoration. Other initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Liesborn, Westphalia, Benedictines, SS. Cosmus, Damianus, et Simeon; stamps and inscription on the verso of the front parchment endleaf: ‘Liber sanctorum martirum Cosme Dammiani ac beatissimi Symeonis prophete in Lisborn ordinis sancti Benedicti Mon[asteriensis] dioc[esis]. Classe 7 Columnae Theologicae. Quartum scriptum sancti Thome super 4 senten[tiarum]'. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954) in 1923 for £25; accession no. ‘656'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.

SHELFMARK: Broxb. 20.9.