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Full woodcut border on title, 1 double-page and 10 full-page woodcuts. Modern brown Morocco binding with gilt title on spine

Two texts in one codex, both written by the same scribe in brown, red, and purple ink in a 16th-century German Cursiva. Some 20th-century notes added in pencil. Original dated binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards. Gilt and blind stamped, presumably by the court binder Jörg Bernhardt, dated 1553. Covers panelled by blind fillets and Moses roll tool, lozenge formed by putti stamp. Gilt central panel stamp on upper cover showing a portrait of Ottheinrich with a second panel, with gilt legend: OTTHAINRICH VON·G C / PFALTZGRAVE BEY RHEIN / HERTZOG IN NIDERN UND / OBERN : BAIRN.

Illuminated manuscript on vellum, initials alternately in red or blue, with 24 initials painted or with filigree pen-flourishes, and 15 historiated initials of varying sizes on gold ground. Binding: Original 16th century dark brown calf over wooden board binding, 540 x 385 mm, blind-stamped with central- and side-bosses on front cover, with two additional bosses on rear cover, corner copper pieces on both sides stamped with ornamental motifs edge guards on tail. (Lamb of Christ, initials HIS), spiked to protect and to balance the volume in use.

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