Copy number: B-424(1)

Wanting the blank leaf a1.

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco, the spine gold-tooled; endpapers watermarked ‘Al Masso', and in a crowned shield a lion below the initials GM (cf. B‑124); probably bound for Boutourlin.

Size: 265 × 195 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 257 × 182 mm.

Occasional early marginal notes in red and ink; various hands.

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes.

Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); offset inscription on a2. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 168, see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1839), lot 265; purchased at his sale for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 5.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.7.

Copy number: B-424(2)

Binding: Contemporary German plain dark brown pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps; central boss and four corner-pieces on each cover lost; rebacked.

Size: 295 × 207 × 86 mm.

Size of leaf: 287 × 197 mm.

Fragments from a fifteenth-century manuscript, containing a draft letter concerning events in Vienna and a sermon, used as pastedowns.

On the front endleaf is pasted a fragment from a fifteenth-century manuscript in German, found used as a bookmark.

On a2r an 18-line floral initial is supplied in green, magenta, red, and grey. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance: Bibliotheca Ingeleriana. Andreas Seidel (fl. 1672-1706); on a1r inscription: ‘Ex reliquijs Bibliothecæ Inglerianæ possidet Andreas Seidel, Culmbac[ensis] pastor Illschwang. 1706'. William Allford (1820-1865); on a1r armorial book-plate, see Howe, Book Plates, 399. Francis Edward Norris (1885-1966). Presented in 1952; see BLR 4,3 (1952), 174.

SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I4.1477.2.