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Meffret de Meissen’s Sermones, alias Ortulus regine de Sanctis (Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1483) is a folio incunable printed in Gothic textura quadrata. The Bergen copy preserves 197 leaves, arranged in two columns of 55 lines, with a surviving hand-painted initial on A2. The volume shows extensive later annotation in Latin and English, ink tests, and evidence of washed pages, indicating long post-medieval use. It is bound in a nineteenth-century full calf binding with blind and gilt tooling, red edges, and French-style marbled endpapers; the spine leather is lost, exposing the hand-sewn supports. A pastedown note records re-arrangement in 1913, likely during its time in the Markree Library, where it was held by Bryan Cooper before entering the Bibliotheca Lansdåsiana. The final leaf is missing. This copy corresponds to ISTC im00440000 and represents the De Sanctis part of Meffret’s widely circulated sermon collection.