B-284(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [mm12].
Binding: Seventeenth-century German blind-tooled parchment; stamped centre-piece with the Crucifixion and two different corner-piece stamps on both covers.
Size: 318 × 225 × 110 mm.
Size of leaf: 303 × 202 mm.
On [a2r] an initial is supplied in azure on burnished gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, the azure initials with foliate scrolling, within segmented frames of red, pale green, and grey, and with foliate border extensions including gold dotting. Other initials are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Capuchins, BVM and S. Franciscus; partially deleted inscription on [a2r]: ‘[Fratrum Minorum] Capucinorum Hildesiens[ium] catalogo inscriptus N. 24'.
Purchased from Thomas Rodd for £1. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 3 and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 153.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Z 2.3.