Materials for Franciscan use

15th-century table of contents inside the front cover.

Written in German cursive book script.

Principal contents: manual for Franciscan friars with various texts, including ff. 1r-111r Topics providing material for preaching, arranged alphabetically; ff. 120r-168r Miscellaneous texts, including detailed lists of rubrics relating to the Decretals and the Codex of Justinian, privileges pertaining to the Franciscans, and a legal opinion as to whether they are able to inherit property.

From the library of Lord Brotherton.

See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 65-67. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 4-5.