MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4

Binding

Sixteenth-century inboard blind-tooled roll binding, later rebacked, 139 × 99 × 83 mm. Mid-brown tanned calf over wooden boards, probably of oak. The upper board has two copper-alloy catch plates each attached by two iron nails. The lower board has the stubs of two tanned-leather straps each attached by two iron nails.The straps and clasps are now missing.The tooling, all blind, is executed with a fillet and a single roll. The roll (135 × 14 mm) forms a frame to each board, which is then filled with three vertical strips imprinted from the same roll. It has images of Prudentia, Lucretia, and Venus, with a foliate ornament above Prudentia, a grotesque above Lucretia, and Cupid above Venus; lettered ‘PRVDEN | LVCRECIA | VENVS’; similar but not identical to EBDB roll no. r000303 (http://db.hist-ein-band.de, last accessed 13 Apr. 2004); evidently the same roll as that used for the binding of Berlin SB, Ms. germ. 8o 48, also from Medingen (see Aderlass und Seelentrost, 272; ex informatione Regina Cermann). Rebacked with light-brown tanned leather. On the upper board a nineteenth-century label inscribed ‘XXII’.