Richardus de Mediavilla

Chancery folio (280 x 205mm.), 320 leaves, aa⁸ bb¹⁰ cc⁸; a-z [et] [con] [rum] A¹⁰ B-D⁸, double column, 50 lines, gothic type, 2- to 6-line initials in red or blue, some with marginal flourishes, 26-line initials in red and blue with penwork decoration on a1, red initial strokes and paraphs, RUBRICATOR'S DATE OF 1481 at end of m7v ("Furstenfeld 1481") and at end, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards from the Fürstenfeld bindery (EBDB w002338, active 1473-1495), paper lettering-piece on upper cover, two clasps, spine painted white at a later date, manuscript board liners and sewing guards (fragments of two bifolia from an eleventh-century missal, Germany), title lettered across foredge, a few small wormholes, binding worn and wormed with some loss to calf and to upper board, lacking most of both straps

Cistercians of Fürstenfeld (Bavaria, dissolved 1803), inscription at head of aa2 and rubricator's date of 1481; Royal Library, Munich, shelfmark Inc. f.a.871 on flyleaf and duplicate stamp on aa1; John Brande Morris of Brentford (1812-1880, who converted to Catholicism in 1846), inscription on flyleaf; Franciscans of Limoges, stamp on aa1; Franciscans of Clevedon, stamp on aa1

Goff M423; HC(+Add) 10984; BMC v 206 (also a Munich duplicate); BSB-Ink R-170; GW M22509

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The rubricator has noted that the book belongs to St Mary the Virgin in Fürstenfeld, that it was bought by Abbot Leonhard [Eggenhofer, abbot from 1480 to 1496] in 1481 and that it has 33 quires.