Copy number: F-060(1)

Wanting the blank leaf u4.

Binding: Late eighteenth-century English calf for the Bodleian Library; gold fillets; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 318 × 220 × 27 mm.

Size of leaf: 311 × 203 mm.

Some early marginal notes and corrections to the text.

Provenance: ‘G. G.' on A2r and on several other leaves. Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), I no. 1997; sale (1789), lot 6898. Purchased for £1. 4. 0; the annotated sale catalogue gives no name of purchaser, but the same price as Books Purchased (1789), 5.

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.23.

Copy number: F-060(2)

Bound with:
1. Claudius Ptolemaeus, Quadripartitum. Centiloquium cum commento Hali, etc. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Dec. 1493 (P‑533(1));
2. Haly, filius Abenragel (Albohazen), Liber in iudiciis astrorum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1485 (H‑002(2)).

Wanting a5, h4.5.

Binding: Contemporary English (Oxford, the 'Dragon Binder') blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; two clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers fillets form an outer border, within which is a rosette stamp and a lozenge-shaped dragon stamp. Triple fillets form an inner rectangle which is divided by further triple fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, decorated with the dragon stamp. For the stamps see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xv, nos 146 and 148; on the binder see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, 21-2, with references given there. The binding is listed by Graham Pollard in his notes on Oxford bindings, Bodleian Library, MS. Pollard 326, fol. 39 ('Bindery XVIII'). Binding damaged and stamps very worn.

Size: 332 × 220 × 75 mm.

Size of leaf: 308 × 199 mm.

Some early marginal notes.

Provenance: Robert Frelove (fl. 1530-1534); inscriptions on A2r and u3v of item 3: ‘Liber Roberti Frelove m[er]cer', also on g7v and t8r of item 2, and in Greek on t7v of item 2 and u3v of item 3; given the date of the binding, and notes by the earliest annotating hand in all three items, it is highly likely that the three items were travelling together from soon after the time they were printed and, therefore, that Frelove and all succeeding owners possessed all three items. Roger Goddard (sixteenth/seventeenth century); inscriptions on O5r of item 1: ‘per me Roger Goddard'; and on Q8r of item 1: ‘by me Roger Goddard'; also signature on [*1v] of item 2. Samuel Stallon (†1613); inscription on [*1r] of item 1: ‘Samuellus Stallon [ ]'. A Latin motto in a different hand: ‘Sperando spiro, operando despero'. On the same page is a purchase inscription: ‘pretium Nouembris 28^o 1623 | vi s' in an unidentified hand. William Lilly (1602-1681); inscriptions on [*1r] of item 1: ‘William Lilly. Aug. 1634. pret. 4s.8d'; and on P2v of item 1: ‘Gulielmus Lillius Leicestrensis. 1634.19.Maii anno ætatis currente 32: et die 21: et 11 horæ: minut. 34. P.M. scriptum in civitate Londini'. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.

SHELFMARK: Ashm. 572(3).

Copy number: F-060(3)

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled quarter tan morocco over marbled paper boards; for Ingram Bywater(?).

Size: 298 × 205 × 20 mm.

Size of leaf: 291 × 192 mm.

Provenance: Johannes Fabri (1478-1541), Bishop of Vienna. Bequeathed by him to the library of the college of S. Nicolaus, Vienna; inscription in hand of Jacobus Kiechlin on A4v: ‘Liber reuerendissimi patris et domini doctoris Johannis Fabri episcopi Viennæ propriis et non episcopatus pecuniis emptus et post mortem ipsius in bibliothecam collegii sui Diui Nicolai ad usum inhabitantium studentium et studiosorum iuxta suam ordinationem collocandus. Actum x Januarii anno a Christo nato M.D.X.L. ex singulari mandato et ex ore ipsius reuerendissimi episcopi. Jacobus Kiechlin'. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); perhaps acquired from List & Francke, 1879, no. 80, see annotated slip from sale catalogue attached to front pastedown; Elenchus, no. 1309. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. E 2.6.