Homiliae super Mattheum – Gregorius I, Homiliae super Evangeliis – Origenes, Homiliae – preceded by: Arbor consanguinitatis. by Johannes Chrysostomos - 1407-1408: Illustrated manuscript in Latin on paper, written by Nicolas, former vicar in Piesting.

Murder and drama in Austrian History - many initials in red, one genealogical table, 2 large pen-and-ink drawings highlighted in red.

The most striking feature of the manuscript at hand is probably its chain binding, decorated in the extremely rare cuir-ciselé technique, see more below. The codex was meant as a practical book for clerical use. The scribe signed his work and dated it twice, and reveals his identity as Nicolaus plebanus, presumably also the artist of the text decoration and the drawings.

No other manuscripts by the hand of Nicolaus are known to survive and in general, very few manuscripts from Wiener Neustadt or Piesting have come down to us. Nicolaus' notes, written in German in 1408, are particularly interesting, as they show his genuine concern for his environment and the torments of his time. That he found such a violent end through stabbing by an enemy – as is mentioned on f. 58r – intensifies the book's history in a downright tragic way. In all aspects, the book at hand is a genuine witness of medieval practices in early 15th-century Austria.