Copy number: C-197(1)

Wanting¹ a1,² a1, Q1.8, ee_{3, 4}.

Leaves a8, dd_{7, 8}, and ee_{1, 2} are slightly defective. Leaves in gatherings¹ a, o–ee overlaid with vegetal tissue and strengthened. A duplicate of e1 bearing the printed signature (absent in the other) supplied from a smaller copy.

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with the old calf covers inlaid.

Size: 270 × 200 × 70 mm.

Size of leaf: 260 × 185 mm.

A few early marginal notes. Scribbles on e1v.

In gatherings² a-k initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.

Provenance: On e1v: ‘ . . . smyt ped to robard(?) smyt . . . wylyams . . .' On p4r: ‘Johan . . .' Mr Blechydon (seventeenth century). Thomas Lee (fl. 1697?); on front endleaf ‘Thomas [Lee], Darnhall, [ne]ar Over, Cheshire. Found in my desk which I bought at late Mr. Blechydon's day of sale, Middlewich'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 156.

Copy number: C-197(2)

Wanting a_{1-4, 9, 10}, A1-3, D2, E_{6, 8}, I8, K8, S1, V2, Y8, Z8, [et]3, bb3 –ee4. Leaf E7 bound after I7. A duplicate of sheet V3 is bound in place of sheet V2.

Many leaves overlaid with vegetal tissue and strengthened.

Binding: Modern calf, with the eighteenth-century calf covers inlaid.

Size: 265 × 200 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 251 × 187 mm.

A few early marginal notes.

Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.

SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1759.

Copy number: C-197(3)

Fragment.

Bound between gatherings f and i of items 2 and 4 of the volume; see B‑483(1); also for details of the binding, manuscript notes, and provenance.

Size of leaf: 254 × 171 mm.

Leaves D2 –F2 only.

SHELFMARK: S. Seld. d.17(3).