Copy number: A-021(1)

Bound with:
1. Pomponius Mela, Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Venice: [Printer of Pomponius Mela], 15 Nov. 1477 (M‑176(2));
3. Pseudo-Aristoteles, Liber de secretis secretorum. [Paris: Printer of Ockam, c.1477] (A‑429);
4. Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus. Venice: Andreas de Paltasichis, 5 June 1477 (A‑618).

Binding: Mottled calf, probably eighteenth-century, with later repairs to the spine; a floral roll on the upper cover. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.

Size: 227 × 145 × 43 mm.

Size of leaf: 199 × 126 mm.

On the endleaf manuscript excerpts in Greek from Heliodorus, Aethiopica. Two manuscript lists of contents, one, on the recto of the front endleaf, approximately contemporary, the other, on the front pastedown, in a later, probably nineteenth-century, hand.

Provenance: Robert Plompton (sixteenth century). John Selden (1584-1654): see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 56, listed as ‘Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis. Ven. 1477. cum aliis.’ Presented in 1659.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° M 23 Art. Seld.; Auct. N 5.2.

SHELFMARK: S. Seld. e.1(2).

Copy number: A-021(2)

Bound with:
1. Miles Windsor, Academiarum quae aliquando fuere et hodie sunt in Europa catalogus. London: G. Bishop and R. Newberie, 1590 (STC 25841);
2. Thomas Coryate, Traveller for the English. [London]: W. Jaggard and H. Fetherston, 1616 (STC 5812);
3. Richardus Crocus, Orationes . . . duae. [Paris: 1520];
4. Louis Du Moulin, Oratio auspicalis. Oxford: Leon. Lichfield, 1652 (Wing D2546);
5. Sir Edward Greaves, Oratio habita . . . die Harvaei memoriæ dicato. London: J. Cotterel, 1667 (Wing G1794);
6. Sir William Cornwallis, Essays of certain paradoxes. London: for T. Thorp, 1616 (STC 5779);
7. Nothing without God. [London: 1669] (Wing 3087A);
8. Bilibaldus Pirckheimer, The Praise of Government. London: G. P[urslowe], for J. Budge, 1617 (STC 19947);
9. Certain necessary directions as well for the cure of the plague. Oxford: W. Hall, 1665 (Wing C1709);
10. William Foster, Hoplocrisma-spongus. London: T. Cotes, 1631 (STC 11203);
11. Sir Edward Greaves, Morbus epidemius anni 1643. Oxford: L. Lichfield, 1643 (Wing G1792);
13. John Jones, The Bathes of Bathes Ayde. London: T. East, 1572 (STC 14724a.3);
14. Comptoir Almanack. Amsterdam: B. Jansz, 1629;
15. Edmond Halley, Ephemeris ad annum . . . 1688. London: J. Heptinstall, 1688 (Wing A1807).

Binding: Early eighteenth-century(?) English calf over pasteboard, with a frame formed by fillets and decorated in each corner with a tool of two leaves and a wreath; also a cresting roll.

Size: 179 × 135 × 45 mm.

Size of leaf: 179 × 135 mm.

Provenance: John Aubrey (1626-1697); table of contents on the endleaf possibly in his hand. Anthony Wood (1632-1695); see Kiessling, Anthony Wood, no. 18. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in 1695. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1858-60.

SHELFMARK: Wood 498(12).

Copy number: A-021(3)

On this copy see Coates–Jensen 257, no. 27.

Bound with:
1. Publius Terentius Afer, Vulgaria. [English and Latin]. [Oxford: Theodoricus Rood, not after 1483] (T‑053(2));
2. Petrus Paulus Vergerius, De ingenuis moribus ac liberalibus studiis. [Louvain]: Johannes de Westfalia, [between 8 Apr. 1476 and Nov. 1477] (V‑065).

Wanting e11 and e12.

Binding: Contemporary English (Oxford) calf over wooden boards; metal catch; clasp missing; lower board almost detached. Fillets on both covers; see Duke Humfrey's Library, no. 120; Gibson, Oxford Bindings, p. 26 (under former shelfmark, for which see below).

Size: 201 × 140 × 25 mm.

Size of leaf: 202 × 140 mm.

Front parchment pastedown and endleaf from a medical work, copied in a late thirteenth-century anglicana hand, with a table of contents of medical works on conception etc., in a hand of a similar date; pastedown possibly from a lectionary written in a thirteenth-century bookhand. On the recto the text is Gal 1, mutilated, Gal 2,1-5, 6-10. This is followed on the verso by Gal 2,9 with a commentary.

Many pen-flourished initials. Initials and pilcrows rubricated.

Provenance: Brother John Grene (fl. 1483); purchase inscription on the endleaf: ‘1483 Frater Johannes Grene emit hunc librum Oxon' elemosinis amicorum suorum'. Henry Strach[ ](?) (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on endleaf: ‘Henricus Strach[ ](?) . . . hu[n]c libru[m] bedfordie'. John Uncle (early sixteenth century). Robert Hontor (sixteenth century); inscription on a1v. Thomas Goldsmith (sixteenth century). Henry Stave (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘His ffreinds and Thomas Goldsmith having unto you and . . . house per C . . . per me Henry Stave'. Thomas Thomson (1768-1852): sale (1866), lot 1068. Acquired in 1866 for £36; see Invoice Book (1865-7, Library Records d. 431); there are inscriptions ‘Bibl Bodl', ‘Auctar Liber Oxon', ‘Auct Libb Oxon', perhaps implying an earlier connection with the Bodleian, although this is not documented.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. R sup. 2(3).

SHELFMARK: Arch. G e.5(3).