Copy number: B-027(1)

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century marbled pasteboards.

Size: 187 × 140 × 10 mm.

Size of leaf: 183 × 135 mm.

Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 620*, see Catalogue (1831); sale: perhaps to be identified with Catalogue (1841), part III, lot 877. Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 6.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.50.

Copy number: B-027(2)

Bound with:
1. Baptista Mantuanus, De patientia. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Sept. 1499 (B‑043);
2. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 16 July 1[4]99 (B‑035);
3. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 14 July 1499 (B‑039);
4. Baptista Mantuanus, In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Aug. 1499 (B‑031).

Copy number: B-027(3)

Bound with:
1. Baptista Mantuanus, De patientia. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Sept. 1499 (B‑043);
2. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 16 July 1[4]99 (B‑035);
3. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 14 July 1499 (B‑039);
4. Baptista Mantuanus, In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen. Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Aug. 1499 (B‑031).

Binding: Contemporary German (Augsburg, Kyriß workshop no. 86) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal clasps and catches; rebacked. On both covers double fillets form an outer frame, in which is a floral roll (Kyriß pl. 175, no. 1); the head of the upper cover is stamped ‘Baptista M'. Triple fillets form an inner frame, decorated on the upper cover with a rosette stamp (Kyriß pl. 175, no. 6), undecorated on the lower cover. In the inner rectangle, on both covers, a repeated strapwork roll (Kyriß pl. 175, no. 2).

Size: 201 × 144 × 68 mm.

Size of leaf: 192 × 130 mm.

Provenance: Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM inscription in red ink on a1r, armorial stamp on a2r, of item 1; ‘H 245' (? shelfmark) on label inside the upper cover. Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-1895); Buxheim sale, lot 3338. Purchased by Falconer Madan for the Bodleian in 1884 for 11 Marks 50 Pfennigs; see Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; note by Falconer Madan inside the upper cover; see also Honemann, ‘Buxheim Collection', Bod8.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.49(5).