Copy number: C-360(1)

Printed on parchment. Leaf [h7v], l. 31 reads: ‘ . . . pape xii'; see GW Anm. The missing ‘x' has been supplied by the rubricator.

Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco; gilt fillets form a frame on both covers; the spine gold-tooled; gold-tooled fern-tip on the turn-ins; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 430 × 300 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 420 × 280 mm.

On a parchment endleaf is a fifteenth-century drawing in brown ink of Hercules and Antaeus, attributed to Andrea Mantegna by an eighteenth-century inscription in French; now attributed to Lo Zoppo by Lilian Armstrong (see ‘A North Italian Drawing of Hercules and Antaeus in a German Incunable: Marco Zoppo(?) and Drawings in Renaissance Books', in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: the Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture (London and Turnhout, 2006), 5-19). On [a1r] a 10-line initial, made up from intertwining acanthus leaves, is supplied in gold with black highlighting, on a blue ground with gold filigree, within a frame of pale red and pink. In the lower margin is a coat of arms (see below). Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes.

The front endleaf is a pastedown from a former binding; on the recto is an early seventeenth-century inscription (possibly French): ‘Constitutiones Clemen[tis] pape cum apparatu Johannis Andreae', indicating that the endleaf already belonged with the book then. At the foot of the endleaf is an upside-down Hebrew inscription with a date of 1474(?), ownership inscription(?), before the leaf was used as a pastedown.

Provenance: Francesco Diedo (c.1433-1484); coat of arms, barry of six, or and azure; see Armstrong at pp. 12-13. Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); see sale, part I (1783), lot 1055, for ‘liv. 572'. Justin comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); sale (1815), lot 1121; said by van Praet to have been retained at ‘liv. 800'; see J. J. B. van Praet, Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin de la bibliothèque du Roi, 6 vols (Paris 1822-8), II, p. 22, no. 20. Purchased for £36. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 8.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Y 1.2.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 1.1.

Copy number: C-360(2)

Printed on parchment.

Sheet [e3.6] only.

Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments.

Size of fragments: 427 × 305 mm.

Initials, running chapter numbers, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance: James Edwards. Philip Bliss (1787-1857); on [e3r] a note: ‘Given me, May 1810, by Mr. Edwards of Pall Mall. Philip Bliss St. John's coll: Oxon.’ The shelfmark indicates a late nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century date of acquisition.

SHELFMARK: Inc. b. G1.1467.1.

Copy number: C-360(3)

Printed on parchment.

Leaves [a_{3, 5-8}] only, [a_{3, 5, 8}] mutilated.

Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments.

Size of fragments: 350 × 295, 413 × 285, and 200 × 280 mm.

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834). Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. b.1(4-8).