Life of St Catherine of Alexandria, German

The handwritten shelfmark on fol. 2r indicates that the book formed part of the convent library of the Dominican nuns of St Catherine in Nuremberg. The scribe was Kunigund Niklasin, who was responsible for the convent’s books and compiled a catalogue of its library in which the manuscript is recorded among the books used for reading aloud during meals.

When the convent was dissolved in 1596, the only surviving nun, Margaretha Bindterin (1529–1597), took the manuscript with her to Bam­ber­­g, where she concluded her life in the house of the Dominican nuns.