The marginalia

Two items of marginalia written in the Roman alphabet deserve comment. They occur on f66r and the final page, f116v. The hands have a fifteenth century appearance.

66r

der mvs del

Identified as NHG der Mussteil by Richard Salomon and Erwin Panofsky in 1954: See the discussion on Rene Zandbergen’s site. The word seems to have been corrected to the commoner expression Mussmehl.

The Mussteil was a minimum share of the household property reserved to a widow on her husband’s death, or after a divorce. See the online Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch with illustrative quotation from the Sachsenspiegel and the digitisation of the Heidelberg manuscript cpg164.

116v

pox leber

Identified as NHG Bocksleber, ‘goat’s liver’, by Johannes Albus in a presentation at the Frascati conference in 2012.

An observation on dialect

The form musdel for mussteil has d- for NHG t-, characteristic of northern and Rhineland dialect, whereas poxleber for bocksleber has p- for NHG b-, characteristic of southern dialect. If the two identifications are correct, they are evidence that the manuscript had more than one owner within Germany before the period of Rudolph II.