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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 12.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-n¹⁰ (a1 blank)]. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Modern binding using a 15th century German[?] manuscript parchment leaf from antiphonal as a covering.
87167
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Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wässern. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 18.7 x 13.1 cm. Signatures: [a-b⁶]. Final page blank. Binding: limp vellum.
104211
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In three parts: the Lapidarius attributed to Aristotle, the Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur and the Physiognomia. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e⁶ (a1, e6 blank)]. Imperfect; initial and final blank leaves (leaves [a]1, [e]6) lacking. Large initial on leaf [a]2r in red and blue, subsequent initials in red or green (some initial spaces left blank); rubrication in red. Binding: panelled calf.
89950
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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.
100500
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Royal quarto, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸ [t]⁸ (a1, t8 blank). Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. First initial decorated in red, blue, and green inks along with gold leaf; subsequent initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue. Binding: contemporary Italian blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of leather clasps. In box.
102897
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For a note on the contents of this book, see BM 15th cent. where it is treated as a Low-Saxonn version of the Herbarius. Madsen lists as Promptuarium medicinae. Title page has a woodcut illustration of doctors attending a patient. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.4 x 20.5 cm. Text in two columns. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [*⁸ a-b¹⁰ c-n⁸ o-p⁶]. Imperfect: leaf [*]1 (the title page) lacking. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of two clasps.
90921