Part of a complete bible in four volumes, three of which have
survived (Min. 2, Min. 3, Min. 4), listed in the Allerheiligen
Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v).
Contents: poetic books (Proverbs to Sirach), Tobias, Judith,
Esther, Ezra, Maccabees. Written in two columns, by one hand, with
contemporaneous corrections. Later marginalia and glosses by
various hands attest to intensive use of the manuscript into the
14th century. The P on the ornamental page (f. 7v) corresponding to
15 lines and the initials with scroll ornamentation at the
beginning of the individual books and prologues are executed in pen
with red ink. As in Min. 4, their inner grounds are in rich blues
and greens, which differ from the pale colors in Min. 2. 12th
century Romanesque leather binding with decorative lines and two
clasps.
