Content: Cofferets or caskets of this type are known to have been used as dispatch and book boxes. It is possible that, withthe addition of a consecrated altar stone, they may have served as portable altars.
Content: In this box is laid: Catholic church, Roman. Liturgy and ritual. Missal. [Missale romanum] [Nuremberg, 1484]
Content: Kup, K. A fifteenth-century cofferet. (In: Renaissance news. New York. v. 9 (1956) p. 14-19) Kup, K. Notes on a fifteenth-century cofferet. (In: The Connoisseur. London. v. 140 (1957) p. 62-66)
Content: Leather covered wooden box bound with metal straps; fittedwith lock and with lugs at sides to hold a carrying strap;lid slightly vaulted; bottom largely restored. Probably made in Paris between 1480 and 1520.
Content: Woodcut (Schreiber 750) of the Almighty Enthroned, hand colored, pasted inside lid, had appeared in the Verdun missal printed by Jean Du Pré in Paris in 1481.
