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Parchment · 490 pp. · 22.5 x 15 cm · Hochheim near Worms, Dominican Cloister of Maria Himmelskron · about 1474
Composite manuscript from the Dominican Cloister Maria Himmelskron in Hochheim near Worms, containing works by Johannes Meyer; according to a note of ownership in his own hand, it was written in 1474.
The catalogue entry says "parchment" but from the images it looks like paper. The way the edges are crumbing and the texture of uniform straight vertical ribs seem quite typical of paper and very incompatible with hide.
Also the way the manuscript is written and rubricated seems very like the output of a monastic "manuscript factory". Although, since Johannes was a monk turned priest, he presumably could indeed have written it that way himself.
But, anyway, that is clearly a "clean copy" from some draft. It definitely was not written straight "from brain to paper".
That catalogue phrase "in his own hand" probably refers to the note on page V1:
That note does not seem to be in the same handwriting as the book:
Although the note is in semi-cursive while the book is in "printed" style, so they are not directly comparable.
My German is epsilonic so I cannot read the whole of Johannes's note on V1. Does it indeed say that the physical book was scribed by himself (as opposed to "authored")?