Compact Northern Textualis with short ascenders and descenders.

Lower part of a leaf. The writing is quite rubbed off.

The host volume belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69. This book is part of a tranche of books acquired by Peder Pedersen Hie, who was rector of Herlufsholm between 1610-13. It lacks the typical spine label with the letters BVH for Bibliotheca Vetus Hienniae, as well as an inscription on the title page reading Hic liber in usum Scholæ Herlovianæ acquisitus est Rectore Petro Petrejo Hiennio, that Hie's books usually bear. However, various inscriptions on the title page, guards, and pastedowns contain evidence that the book was used in an English-speaking educational context for a period. The back pastedown is full of scribbles and notes in Latin and English, for example repetitions of the phrase in my defense. The following inscriptions appear on an otherwise blank leaf: 

Jacobus Galbrath me iure possidet
Petrus Magnus Danæus
Joannes Anderson

Jo(h)annes Anderson remains unidentified, but a James Galbraith and a Petrus Magnus (Peder Magnussen or Mogensen the Dane) were matriculated at St Salvator's College, University of St Andrews, in 1608/09 alongside Peder Pedersen Hie. This suggests that the book was used by several students before Hie took it home to Denmark with him when he left Scotland in 1609. Another fragment with a Hie-St Andrews connection is F-4ncw.

The binding is a simple laced-case binding with three double endbands. It was restored by bookbinder Axel Pedersen (A.P. Kons) in 1976 according to a stamp on the back endleaf.