Copy number: T-173(1)

Wanting the blank leaves [bb10] and [*8].

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.

Size: 412 × 314 × 72 mm.

Size of leaf: 397 × 282 mm.

Sixteenth-century manuscript obituary notes, in German, on a parchment strip pasted inside the front cover. ‘De virtutibus theologicis et aliis' in a sixteenth-century hand in the upper margin of [a1r]; on the same leaf, in the upper right-hand corner: ‘2^a 2^ae D. Thom. Aquin.' in a seventeenth-century hand in brown ink. Running ‘quaestio' numbers and references to folio numbers in the list of contents in an early hand in brown ink. Early signature partially visible.

On [a1r] an eight-line initial ‘P' is supplied in interlocked red and blue with reserved white acanthus-leaf decoration edged in brown, within a square ground made of red and violet pen-work decoration. With floral and foliate extensions in brown ink touched in red. Other main initials are supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration and sometimes brown ink pen-work as well. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Augsburg, Observant Franciscans; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Pro bibliotheca Augustana Fratrum Minorum Regularis Obseruantiae'. Stamped shelfmark ‘29' attached to [a1r]. Possibly a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘1987' in pencil on the front pastedown in a hand that seems to be very similar to the one that generally wrote duplicate numbers in Munich books. If so, probably acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 2.16.