MANUSCRIPT, ILLUMINATED-- "Das puch der schopfunge an dem xxii capitel x des helfungs die heilig drivaltigkaït...Item als dem Gerren sein seittem geoffnet ward ...", manuscript on paper, first text written in Germany (Nordlingen), 1475, "beschriben durch S. Barrnian", second text probably also southern German, by a different hand, sm. 4°, 168ll. (154 x 107mm.), one full-page miniature on vellum and crudely- illuminated opening initial, contemporary German calf over wooden boards tooled in blind (clasps lacking, wear to spine).

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MANUSCRIPT, ILLUMINATED-- "Das puch der schopfunge an dem xxii capitel x des helfungs die heilig drivaltigkaït...Item als dem Gerren sein seittem geoffnet ward ...", manuscript on paper, first text written in Germany (Nordlingen), 1475, "beschriben durch S. Barrnian", second text probably also southern German, by a different hand, sm. 4°, 168ll. (154 x 107mm.), one full-page miniature on vellum and crudely- illuminated opening initial, contemporary German calf over wooden boards tooled in blind (clasps lacking, wear to spine).

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Literature : Faye and Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962), p.405.

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