Provenance: Made for the Cisterican nunnery of St. Mary and St.
Maurice, Medingen. Identified by Lipphardt as one of an extensive
group of manuscripts made for this convent, all datable to the
period 1470-1520; dated by Lipphardt to the period of Abbess
Elisabeth von Elvern (1513-24), by Uhde-Stahl to the period 1494-7.
Bought by the Bodleian at the James Brice sale (Sotheby's 27 July
1887), lot. 535, for £8.
Contents: Private prayers and devotions based on the liturgy of
Eastertide.
Hand: Written in red, blue and black.
