This manuscript from 1467, which first belonged to the convent of
the Poor Clares at Freiburg in Breisgau and was transported to the
Abbey of St. Gall in 1699, contains, in addition to some Latin
texts, many tracts for spiritual instruction in German translation.
These include an Ars moriendi, the Cordiale de quattuor novissimis
by Gerard van Vliederhoven, the so-called Hieronymus-Briefe(Letters
of Jerome) translated by John of Neumark (ca. 1315-1356), the
Spiegelbuch, a dialogical text in rhymed verses on living life
properly, the trials of worldly life and everyday tribulations,
with about twenty colored pen sketches, and a version of the legend
of the Three Kings by John of Hildesheim (1310/1320-1375). The
manuscript also contains some additional pen sketches: a unicorn
(p. 87), images representing two Apostles (p. 107; Paul and John?),
a man and a woman in secular dress, and a stag and a wild boar (p.
513). There are imprints in Carolingian minuscule on front and rear
inside covers (rear inside cover: Hrabanus Maurus, De computo).
