Folio, (296 x 214 mm). 391 ff., lacking only the final blank, otherwise complete. With 19 large Maiblumen initials, large woodcut frontispiece and 275 woodcut illustrations, all in contemporary colouring. Contemporary boards, the original covering replaced in the 17th century with tooled Spanish leather, boards with supralibros and a complicated brocade design of parallel curved and straight lines, small squares and discs, fixed with a metallic film and glue, painted in reddish gilt, silver, and black; somewhat worn, joints restored, clasps removed, preserved in a dark green cloth Solander box. A very fine copy with wide margins. The first 3 and final 2 quires re-sewn, with some leaves restored in the gutter, ff. I and CCCLXXXI repaired at lower and upper margin, respectively. Minor thumbing and soiling, occasional light damp-staining, some bleed-through of colours in a few places.

Provenance: Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine convent near Salzburg, with oval supralibros of Nonnberg showing St. Erentrudis stamped on binding. Contemporary ownership inscription on pastedown and first leaf and a small stamp on the second leaf. Nonnberg is the oldest continuously existing nunnery north of the Alps; later with Emil Offenbacher (1908-90), New York, bookseller, sold the book in 1954 to; Cornelius J. Hauck (1893-1967), Cincinnati, Ohio, a bibliophile primarily known for his collection of books on botany and horticulture.