Copy number: B-234(1)

Bound with:
1. Vita et Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super libertate ecclesiastica. Paris: Johann Philippi, 27 Mar. 1495 (V‑147(1)).

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf, with older calf onlaid. Sprinkled red-edged leaves.

Size: 223 × 170 × 28 mm.

Size of leaf: 215 × 161 mm.

Some marginal notes. On the front endleaf, manuscript notes about the Vita et processus S. Thomae.

Provenance: Edward Burton (b. 1698); inscription on front endleaf in Hearne's hand: ‘This book belongs to Edward Burton, Esq.'; armorial book-plate: a cross engrailed, between four roses; crest: a dexter gauntlet; motto: ‘Dominus providebit'. Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); signature on front endleaf dated ‘Sept. 10 1734'. Richard Gough (1735-1809). Bequeathed by Gough.

SHELFMARK: Gough Kent 103(2).

Copy number: B-234(2)

Bound with:
1. Vita et Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super libertate ecclesiastica. Paris: Johann Philippi, 27 Mar. 1495 (V‑147(2)).

Wanting bb5.6.

Binding: English mottled and plain blind-tooled calf; inside an outer panel of mottled calf a panel of plain calf; and an inner rectangle of mottled calf; ‘Cambridge style'; the spine, gold-tooled; c.1700.

Size: 233 × 167 × 28 mm.

Size of leaf: 222 × 157 mm.

Notes by Douce on front endleaf and on a separate sheet, tipped in at the end of the volume. Eighteenth/nineteenth-century note on bb10r about printing in England.

Frame supplied in red ink: single vertical lines divide the page into two columns, with double horizontal lines above the printed text and a single one below, enclosing it. An eighteenth-century woodcut is pasted in on a1v.

Provenance: Philibert de Cha[ ] (fifteenth/sixteenth century); cropped inscription on a1r of item 1. Martinus Doversinus (sixteenth century); name on back endleaf. Cancelled inscription on aa1r. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631); signature a1r of item 1, two other signatures inside the upper cover described as facsimile (probably by Douce). Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 136(2).

Copy number: B-234(3)

Bound with:
1. Vita et Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super libertate ecclesiastica. Paris: Johann Philippi, 27 Mar. 1495 (V‑147(3));
3. Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita. [Paris]: Georg Wolf, [c.1492] (C‑107(1)).

Impression of bearer type on bb10.

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf; blind fillets form a border with a floral tool at the corners.

Size: 235 × 175 × 37 mm.

Size of leaf: 228 × 160 mm.

Some marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand. Notes, including list of contents, on front endleaves, in Thomas Baker's hand.

Provenance: Heavily cancelled inscription on a1r of item 1. Sir Henry Cocke (1538-1610); name on a1r of item 1. Richard Watkinson (fl. 1601-1640); gift from Ursula, Lady Coke; cancelled signature and inscription, in a contemporary hand, on a1r of item 1: ‘Liber Ricardi Watkinson, ex dono colendissimae suae dominae dominae Vrsulae Cock, vxoris Henr. Cocke, militis'; inscription on m6v of item 1: ‘Richardus Watkinson, Aulae Pembrochianae in Academia Cantabrigiae alumnor, apud Willingham in Comitatu Lincolniense natus, Ecclesiarum Broxborniae et Hoddesdoniae in Comitatu Hertfordiae ac Diocaesis Londini, me jure tenet ex dono colendissimae suae dominae dominae Vrsulae Cocke, Broxborniae viduae relictae ac nuper vxoris domini sui colendissimi, benignissimi ac dignissimi Henrici Cocke, Equitis aurati defuncti, Cofferarii illustrissimo Domino nostro Jacobo dei gratia Angliae, Scociae, Franciae et Hiberniae Regis etc. A[nn]o domini 1609'. Richard Watkinson (fl. 1636); gift from his father in 1625; inscription on m6v of item 1, in the same hand as that of Watkinson senior's inscription above: ‘Ricardus Watkinson de Bernards Inn, London ac nuper de Glemsford in Comitatu Suffolciae, hoc anno domini 1636 me jure tenet ex dono venerabilis viri doctissimi D. Ricardi Watkinson patris sui anno domini 1625'; signature on a1r of item 3. Dudley Loftus (1619-1695); signature on a1r and a2r of item 1. James Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh (1600-1678); inscription inside the upper cover: ‘Empt. e Bibliotheca Margetsoniana', in hand of Baker. Thomas Baker (1656-1740); see Korsten, 10, no. 68; inscription on a1r and a2r of item 1: ‘Tho. Baker Coll. Jo. Socius eiectus'. Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue 1829, part III, no. 7710. Purchased from Thorpe for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 2, and Thorpe Catalogue (1832), part II, no. 2994.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° A 88 Th. BS.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.47(2).

Copy number: B-234(4)

Bound with:
1. Vita et Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super libertate ecclesiastica. Paris: Johann Philippi, 27 Mar. 1495 (V‑147(4)).

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library.

Size: 242 × 180 × 17 mm.

Size of leaf: 234 × 172 mm.

On bb10v notes in a contemporary hand, on the humours: ‘est, quia non potuit dicere, dixit erit | erit bene vtinam bene | cor sapit, et pulmo loquitur, fel commovet iram | splen ridere facit, et iecur cogit amare': for the couplet ‘cor sapit . . .cogit amare', see Walther, Proverbia, 3428.

Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654). Presented in 1659; see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 34: ‘Thoma Cantuariensis. Vita'.

SHELFMARK: 4° T 1 Th. Seld.