Layout: 2 columns, 27 lines Script: Gothic cursive hand Binding: Red leather with clasps and adornments Provenance: Gift from Hiram Sibley Provenance: Dominican Convent at Maria Medingen see D.460 Box 6 1400-004 6:6 The most significant feature of the manuscript is the woodcut pasted to the inside front cover. The woodcut depicts the Death of the Virgin and dates from 1420-30 making it one of the earliest European woodcuts in an American library. Until November 27, 2005 the manuscript and woodcut are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC as part of a major exhibition Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. 3 scribes Previous shelfmark: Der Stachel der Liebe
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