Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's type 1:118G.
The copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has at the end of vol. I the date of rubrication 1460, at the end of vol. II 1461.
Collation: [1-9¹² 10¹⁰; 11-17¹² 18¹²(12+1: benedicc[i]o[n]e); 19-27¹²; 28-35¹² 36⁸]: 427 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
For the proof sheets pasted together in Cambridge UL (Oates 69), see Paul Needham, "Cambridge Proof Sheets of Mentelin's Latin Bible," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1986): pp.1-35.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.3 x 29.5 cm.
Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red headlines, chapter numbers, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initials painted with penwork decoration, initial F in blue on gold with foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/1r). Initial E at Esdras II has inscription "INRIO" in letterform (perhaps a reference to Heilig Kreuz?) (leaf [14]/5v), also "INRI" and "Maria" (leaf [15]/11r). Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text, mainly NB marks. Contemporary manuscript quire signatures: letters on first folios (bottom center margin) and Arabic numerals on leaves (various places around top, bottom, and side margins). Unidentified inscription: "Ita fr. Ant. veibsr(?)," in similar hand to Heilig Kreuz inscription (leaf 36/8r).