27. Office for the anointing of the sick

The manuscript was written in Nuremberg in the middle of the fifteenth century, and may have belonged to Katterina Menttellwergerin (Mendelin), whose name is inscribed on the first page. The liturgical use of the text has been identified as that of the Dominican sisters of St. Katherine, a convent founded in 1295 which participated in the Dominican reform movements of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and had an active scriptorium and possibly also a bindery. It is still in its 15th-century red-dyed pigskin binding, and came with a four-strand braided bookmark.
The text is written in a gothic bookhand in Latin with German rubrics and musical notation for the prayers. Marginal annotations in German were added in a different hand, presumably by a reader.