Copy number: C-067(1)

Binding: The upper cover: contemporary Polish (Cracow; Schwenke–Schunke–Rabenau 142) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with manuscript title-label ‘Cassiodo: in Psal.' followed by old shelfmark ‘170' pasted on; two clasps lost. On the upper cover fillets form five concentric frames. Within the outer frame is a hunting roll (Schwenke–Schunke 145 no. 8: Krakau H. A. (Lantse)); within the second frame a small floral stamp; within the third frame a roll with a leafy ornament; the space between the fourth and the fifth frames is left blank. In the central compartment, a plait-work pattern formed by a small lozenge-shaped stamp. The lower cover: sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, much worn, over which have been placed a strip and two corner-pieces of sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf; two clasps lost. On the pigskin section, fillets form concentric frames, within which is a floral stamp, an acorn stamp, and various unidentifiable rectangular stamps. On the calf strip are concentric frames formed by fillets; the outer border formed by a Renaissance roll with portrait medallions, a narrow inner border formed by a roll with floral ornaments, the same used on the corner-pieces. Nineteenth-century spine; the whole probably a remboîtage.

Size: 297 × 200 × 55 mm.

Size of leaf: 277 × 180 mm.

Old folio references in table of contents and foliation; a few sixteenth-century marginal notes.

Provenance: On old front pastedown, old shelfmark ‘XXV. F.12'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' on old front pastedown. Acquired after c.1892 judging from the shelfmark; possibly purchased for Fl. 5 from S. Kende, Heumühlsgasse 3, Vienna, Catalogue (1896), no. 148, ‘Caracciolus'; catalogue not in the Bodleian; see Library Bills, 5 Aug. 1896.

SHELFMARK: Inc. d. G8.1490.1.