Copy number: B-483(1)

Bound with:
2/4. [William Caxton], Chronicles of England. [London]: Wynkyn de Worde, 1520 (STC 10001);
3. Chronicles of England. [London: William de Machlinia, c.1486] (C‑197(3)) bound between gatherings f and i of 2/4.

For this copy see Wonderful Things, no. 29.

Wanting² d8.

Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment, stamped with the coat of arms of George Carew, Earl of Totnes: or, three lions passant in pale, sable. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover.

Size: 260 × 192 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 253 × 173 mm.

On a1r, a note in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, ascribing the works in this book to Nicholas Upton, with a later note, below, attributing the Book of Hawking and Hunting to Juliana Berners; and, in a hand of a similar date, ‘He that not wyse, patient, stout and hardy | May lament of himselfe, and not of destinie'.

Woodcut coats of arms in part II coloured in yellow and purple where appropriate.

Provenance: Robert Kenne (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on e8r of item 3: ‘I do beseche you whosoeuer yt be y^t shall haue this booke whether it be man or woman or chylde to praye for the soule of good h Master Kenne(?) for he was the ryght he[ ]r of yt'; continued on e7r: ‘And me Roberte Kenne'. John Vowell (Hooker) (1527-1601); heavily cancelled, and partially damaged, inscription on a1r of item 1, dated 1600; woodcut coat of arms pasted on i4v: six quarterings: 1. Vowell; 2. Hooker; 3. Bolter, of Bolterscombe; 4. Druell; 5. Kelly, of Kelly; 6. Wilford, of Exeter; motto: ‘Post mortem vita'; the same coat, but from a different block, appears in Vowell's Pamphlet of the Offices and Duties of Every . . . Officer of the Citie of Excester (London, 1584); see also F. T. Colby, ‘The Heraldry of Exeter', Archaeological Journal, 30 (1873), 245, 250. George Carew (1555-1629), Earl of Totnes; coat of arms stamped on binding (see above). John Selden (1584-1654); MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 27 records ‘Nic. Vpton. His heraldry with hawking and hunting. Lond. 1636'; Hyde, Catalogus (1674), II 242, records ‘Nic. Uptonus. Of Hawking, Hunting, Blazoning of Armes, etc. Westminster, 1496', with the shelfmark ‘P 1. 10 Art. Seld.'; no work of this title by this author exists; the date and place of printing in the Selden catalogue are clearly a misreading, which was subsequently corrected in Hyde's catalogue; the fact that the shelfmark of the copy listed by Hyde is identical to the earliest shelfmark recorded in this copy shows that this copy was certainly in the Library by 1674; that the peculiarities of the description in the Selden catalogue have been corrected by Hyde shows that this must have been the Selden copy.

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: P 1. 10 Art. Seld. (on the recto of the front endleaf); AA 112 Th. Seld.; Auct. QQ sup. 2.8.

SHELFMARK: S. Seld. d.17(1).

Copy number: B-483(2)

Wanting¹ a1 and² d8, both supplied from Haslewood's facsimile edition.

Leaf e4 bound in reverse and repaired.

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English russia, with gold-tooled spine and black pastedowns.

Size: 247 × 190 × 20 mm.

Size of leaf: 237 × 173 mm.

Early marginal annotations, scribbles, and pen-trials, including, on² b2r, cropped drawings of heraldic emblems in pencil, and, on² c4r, drawings, in black ink, of heraldic beasts' heads; on¹ c6r, ‘John Coryat ys a good boye be[ ]'; on² d2r, ‘John Denys Thomas [ ]'; on² d6r, ‘By me Peter'; on² d7v, ‘Gorge Dorney and Roberd Eyre [ ]', ‘Imple hydrias fyll the pot swayne qua[n]do [ ] siderus a r[ ]lyng | thy brayne cum terra te eleuat igitur beffore was playne ne | te proteictt go backward agayne'. Various bibliographical notes by Douce. Blazon of Thomas Beckwith, with motto, on i4v.

Woodcut coats of arms coloured in yellow and purple where appropriate. Part II paginated in black ink.

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 146.

Copy number: B-483(3)

Bound with:
2. [John Heywood], A mery play betwene Johan Johan the husbande, Tyb his wyfe and syr Johan the preest. [London]: William Rastell, 12 Feb. 1533 (STC 13298);
3. [John Rastell], Of gentylnes and nobylyte: a dyaloge betwen the marchaunt, the knyght and the plowman . . . [London]: John Rastell, [c.1525] (STC 20723).

Wanting gathering¹ a; also¹ b1-2 and² d_{1-2, 6-8}. Missing text of gathering² d supplied in manuscript in a sixteenth-century hand on four and four inserted leaves. Three nineteenth-century blank leaves bound after gathering² c.¹ b_{4, 6} transposed by the binder.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; on both covers, double fillets form a border; two sets of vertical double fillets separate a narrow and a wide rectangle, the spine and metal clasps bearing the arms of Ashmole. Both boards detached.

Size: 246 × 177 × 25 mm.

Size of leaf: 240 × 165 mm.

Marginal notes: on¹ b3r, in English, in a seventeenth-century(?) hand: ‘What we intend now to eat | grant after dynner or souper | Laud, praise and dominion | be unto god for this refection. Amen.'; on¹ d4v: ‘Egonis vnde et popina quid'; on i4v, pen-trials and ‘Claudianus. If rage or lust attempt thy mynde | Auoid the cause and conquest finde'; note on the last of the inserted sixteenth-century leaves (by Ashmole?), ‘A snakes egg was the badge or ensigne that the old Druids carried for their armes. Plin. l.29, cap.3'.

Woodcut coats of arms in part II coloured in yellow and purple where appropriate.

Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692); signature on b3r of item 1. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.

Former shelfmark: Ashm. E 38.

SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1766(1).

Copy number: B-483(4)

A made-up copy: wanting leaves¹ a1,6,¹ d1,6, e3,4,5, g3, h1,5,6,² c1,² d1,6,7,8. Leaves¹ c5,6 mutilated, with some loss of text. Many other leaves cropped.

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf.

Size: 257 × 188 × 18 mm.

Size of leaf: 254 × 175 mm.

Early scribbles, underlining, and pen-trials.

Coats of arms coloured, where appropriate, in yellow, maroon, and blue.

Provenance: John Spadderd (sixteenth century); inscription in lower margin of i1r: ‘Hic liber pertanethe ad me, Johannes Spadderd, wytteneshed by me'. Thomas Beckwith (1731-1786); inscription in lower margin of² b1v: ‘Tho. Beckwith his old book which he values like old gold'. Date of acquisition unknown.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 2.5.

SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.22.