Physical description: On thick parchment. 90 + i leaves. 165 x 122 mm.
Contents: First line written above top ruled line. f.1r left blank but used in 13th century for notes and medical recipes.
Decoration: Initials: f.2 space for 5-line initial, unfilled; 3-line in red. Capitals touched in red.
Binding: Medieval German pigskin over bevelled boards; three bands, with clasps fastening upper to lower. Pastedown at end described in Ker as, "from a manuscript written in cursiva, s.xv."
Provenance 1300-1400: 14th century title of manuscript written in frame on front pastedown.
Provenance 1400-1500: 15th century ownership inscription of Augustinian monastery of St. Pancraz at Ranshofen, Austria.
Provenance c.1936-1948: James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1948) reference in A.C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the collection of medieval manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P.R. Lyell (1971) p.xxviii.
Provenance 1952-1952: Quaritch catalogue 699 (1952) item 57 at £100. Purchased by R. G. Morton?
Provenance c.1952-1969: Gift of Robert George Morton (1880-1973), of Beacon Tor, West Kirby to the University of Liverpool, 1969.
Published citations and unpublished notes:
1957: correspondence from Dr. G. Stiassni, Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vienna, regarding dispersed Ranshofen MSS, forwarded by Quaritch to R.G. Morton, July-August 1957.
2013: visit by Dr. Eric Kwakkel (Leiden), who suggested that binding dates from the 12th century. See University news report: March 2013.
2021: Marina Bernasconi Reusser, "'Iste liber est monasterii sancti Pancracii in Ranshofen...': Wiederentdeckte Handschriften aus dem Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Ranshofen", Codices Manuscripti & Impressi, vol. 133
1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
Microfilm copy available for consultation.
