Copy number: J-069(1)

Wanting gatherings [*], a–g, also h_{1-5, 7}, I3-8, gathering k, l7, n4-8, gathering o, p8, q_{2, 7, 8}, r1-2, s_{5, 8}, gathering t, v1.8, x_{1, 3, 6}, y1-2, [con]2.7, B4, D3, K2.7, L8, M_{1-3, 6-8}, gathering N, O7, P1.8, Q2.7, S3-8, and gatherings T–Y, and aa–gg. Leaves p4 and B3 mutilated.

Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Upper cover detached, lower cover very loose.

Size: 285 × 205 × 37 mm.

Size of leaf: 271 × 187 mm.

Some early marginal annotations written in English. On r8v notes in a sixteenth-century English hand: ‘ . . . [the] countie of Somerset humbly doe acknawledg | him selfe to be in depted vnto John Aker(?) the sum of xv s of god | and lawful mony of England and France and Ierland defender of the fayth | That for fower poundes of Englesh quoin(?) I would I would not forsake hime and soo I end'; heavily cropped notes in English in sixteenth-century hands, on I1r, M5r (these last two apparently in the same ink), and H1r. Occasional scribbles and pen-trials.

Provenance: John Bagford (1650-1716). Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); inscription on the remains of an old endleaf, now attached to the front pastedown: ‘Suum cuique Thomas Hearne. This old imperfect book was given me by Mr. John Bagford. It was printed by William Caxton and is a great curiosity'; see MS. Rawl. D. 1167, fol. 5^r, no. 59. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755). Bequeathed in 1755.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 1.4.

SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.4.