Part of a four-volume Latin Bible in parchment, produced in the
scriptorium of Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen shortly
after 1080. The codex has numerous initials with scroll ornaments,
a page decorated with colours and gold featuring an initial V (the
vision of Isaiah), and a historiated inital with scroll ornaments
(the calling of Jeremiah), in which the influence of manuscripts
from Reichenau can be recognized. Along with Min. 18, Min. 4 is one
of the most important codices from the prime of Allerheiligen, when
the monastery, founded in 1049, supported, under Abbot Siegfried
(d. 1096), the reforms of Hirsau and, for this purpose established
a library.
