Copy number: G-055(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [s⁸].

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia, probably bound for Askew; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; the upper cover detached.

Size: 328 × 232 × 43 mm.

Size of leaf: 318 × 217 mm.

Early marginal notes in the hand of Calphurnius, mainly key words, some in Greek. On [a1r] an early manuscript note in now faint black ink, unread. On the recto of the back endleaf an early manuscript note on grammar.

Provenance: Johannes Calphurnius (†1503); inscription [a1v]: ‘Ioannes Calphurnius oratoriam artem grece latineque Patauii gloriose docens: librum hunc Canonicis Regularibus sancti Iohannis in Viridario deuotus legauit Vt inde profitiens lector sis gratus. M° ccccc 3°'. Padua, Augustinian Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Johannes Baptista in Viridario; inscription (see above). Anthony Askew (1722-1772); shelfmark(?): ‘D.3.12' on the recto of the front endleaf; sale (13 Feb. 1775), lot 1754, for £11. 10. 0; note on the recto of the front endleaf. London, British Museum; shelfmark from the Montagu House period: ‘3Xm'; this copy was presumably acquired by the BM at Askew's sale or certainly before 1799, the date at which the Cracherode copy arrived in the BM, when this copy would have become a duplicate; duplicate stamp, dated 1804, on [a2v]; Catalogue of the Duplicate Books of the British Museum (London: Sotheby, 19 Feb. 1819), lot 889; note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Purchased from Brit. Museum 1819'. Purchased for £10. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1819), 4.

SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.33.