Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira

Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf.

Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical drawings in red and the ink of the text.

The pastedowns are from a 14th-century paper manuscript of theological questions, written in German cursiva in two columns, over ca. 53 lines. Strips of 11th-century (?) parchment have been used to secure the sewing in the middle of each quire.

Written in German cursiva, by a Bamberg scribe naming himself as 'Nicolaus notulista'.

Vellum tabs mark the beginnings of each new book of the Bible.

Principal contents: ff. 1r-344v Nicholas of Lyra's commentary on the Bible, with additions by Pauli Burgensis (dated at end 'Anno etc' liii°'); ff. 345r-449r Nicholas of Lyra's commentary on the Psalter, with additions by Pauli Burgensis (dated at end 'Anno etc. liiii°').

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. 62-63. 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; E. G. Krenig, 'Nachrichten zur ehemaligen Pfarrbibliothek in Ebern', in: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch, xii (1960), pp. 296-299; and S. Krämer, 'Neue Nachrichten über die ehemalige Pfarrbibliothek von Ebern', in Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch, xxviii (1976), pp. 36-47.