double column, 223 ff. (of 228, lacking initial and final blanks and final 3 ff. of text), 39 lines and headline, Gothic type, a1 inserted 7-line initial I to Prologue in green and blue on gold ground with marginal extensions, 8-line initial F to St. Jerome's epistle in purple, green and dark blue on gold ground and with extensions to central margin and lower margin with Jesuit motif in yellow, green, blue and purple, other initials alternately in red and blue, paper label partially removed from lower margin of A2, causing a few very small tears, water-stained, causing spotting to lower margins in places, 15th century scholastic ms. used as front pastedown, attractive contemporary blind-stamped Venetian goatskin , sympathetically rebacked, some worming, [BMC V, 194; Goff M-236; Hain 10557], [Venice], [Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn & Nicolaus de Frankfordia], [ 1476]. A manual for the clergy, containing etymological and grammatical explanations of difficult words in the Bible along with the liturgical hours, arranged in the order of the Bible and the church year. Provenance: John Sparrow (book label to front pastedown).