88 pages. 5 full-page miniatures with gold leaf and 25 multi-line gold initials, as well as numerous small initials. Handwoven, burgundy silk binding modeled on a fabric fragment from the Abba Codex, with full gold edges. In a velvet-lined black leather case with replicas of two Byzantine ivory tablets from the 10th century. - The prayer book of Otto III is the only surviving royal prayer book from the Ottonian period and is a book monument of the highest rank. Each page is inscribed in gold on a purple background. The manuscript was created between 983 and 991 at the request of the Byzantine princess Theophanu or her advisor, Archbishop Willigis of Mainz. Written entirely in gold on a purple background, the Codex Aureus served as a spiritual guide for the child king. Facsimile + commentary in a leather case with a replica of two 10th-century Byzantine ivory tablets, now kept in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury. One of 980 numbered copies. Lucerne Facsimile Publishing 2008. Immaculately preserved.