A vellum MS. has lately come into my possession, containing the Service
for the Dead, Prayers, &c., with the tones for chanting, &c., in Latin,
written for a German Order, apparently about the year 1430.
This tome, which is in small 4to., is very remarkable and valuable on
account of the binding. This is red leather, stamped with double lines
forming lozenges, and powdered with additional stamps, Or, a lion, a
fleur-de-lys, an eagle, and a star. The whole is on the plain leather,
without any gilding.
But in addition hereto, a full inscription runs along each back, at top
and bottom and each side, stamped with _movable metal types_ applied by
hand, {406} without gold, as is done by the bookbinder to this day in
blind stamping.
The legend on the first back is as follows:
_At top._--"DIEZ . PUCHLE[=I]
_Continued to the right._--IST . S. . MARGRETEN .
_At the bottom._--SCHUEST . AB[=T] . ZU .
_Continued to the left._--S. . KATHERE[=I] . ZU . MUR."