Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Incipit p[ro]logus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis. p[re]sbiteri. in libros Vitas pat[rum] sancto[rum].
Colophon (leaf [42]/7r): Liber Vitaspatru[m] sancti Hieronimi cardinalis p[re]sbiteri s[ummu]m alphabeti ordine[m] bene registratus impressus per Johanne[m] Zainer in opido Ulm Finiunt feliciter.
Printed in Zainer's types 4:96G and 5:136G.
Collation: [1¹⁰; 2-22¹⁰/⁸ 23⁶ 24-35¹⁰/⁸ 36-38¹⁰ 39⁸ 40¹⁰ 41-42⁸]: 386 leaves, leaf [42]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.7 cm., with several smaller chancery leaves throughout: 28.2 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [42]/8 (blank).
Vitas patrum
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal alphabetic guide to text divisions and list of annotated books added to end of register. Contemporary manuscript quire numbers on each first recto, with "a b c d" on first four leaves of quire [1] and price(?) inscription: ix lb (leaf [1]/2r). Former shelf marks: S carved in top board, and 43 (white on a black square) on spine.