Copy number: C-394(1)

According to table of contents on front endleaf, formerly bound with Georgius Gemistus, De gestis Graecorum, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Praecepta rhetorica and Demetrius of Phalerum, Praecepta rhetorica; these items are also listed with it in the Benefactors' Register I 49; probably Gemistus, De gestis Graecorum post pugnam ad Mantineam per capita tractatio, M. A. Antimacho interprete . . . (Basel, 1540) [4° D 28(1) Jur.]

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and z6.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; two ties lost; rebacked. Fragments of a twelfth-century commentary on Judicum and of a thirteenth-century exposition of liturgical terms in the Missal used as pastedowns; see Ker, Pastedowns, nos 1511-12; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.

Size: 188 × 135 × 45 mm.

Size of leaf: 181 × 128 mm.

Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.

Initials supplied in brown ink.

Provenance: John Barcham or Barkham (1572?–1642); on front endleaf inscription: ‘Liber Uniuersitatis Oxon[iensis] ex dono Johannis Barchami, Socii Coll. Corp. Christi Oxon[iensis]', followed by a list of contents in the same hand. Donated by Barcham; see James, Catalogus (1605), 305; Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 75.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Art. C 2.16; Linc. B 18.12.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.13.