Copy number: J-190(1)

Wanting the blank leaves [c12] and [e1].

Gathering [d] bound at the end.

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, the spine gold-tooled, stamped with the arms (gules, three chevrons or), and motto (`Veritas vincit') of Tongerlo Abbey; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.

Size: 276 × 205 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 263 × 190 mm.

Provenance: Tongerlo, Belgium, Premonstratensians, BVM; coat of arms on the spine (see above); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Bibliotheca Tongerlo'. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1828), 15; note on [a1r].

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.12.

Copy number: J-190(2)

Wanting the blank leaves [e1] and [C6].

Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf with marbled paper boards and gold-tooled spine, bound for Douce, assuming that it is the copy mentioned in the auction catalogue below, containing books with original monastic bindings. Scar of an index tab on [e2].

Size: 285 × 216 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 277 × 196 mm.

Some key words extracted in red ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Running book and chapter numbers in black ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand in the upper corner of each leaf. Early manuscript signatures in red ink.

On [e4r] an eight-line initial ‘I' is supplied in interlocked red and green, with extensions into the margins, in the lower margin ending in a rose; other principal four- and six-line initials are supplied either in red within a green pen-work border, decorated with green and red pen-work within the body of the letter, or in green decorated with red pen-work within the body of the letter; both having extensions into the margins in red and green; other three- to five-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, supplied in red or green; paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining supplied in red. Red ink spilt on several pages.

Provenance: Bamberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Anna; inscription on [a1r] in an eighteenth-century(?) hand: ‘Pro conventu Bamberg Fratrum Minorum ad S. Annam'; see the sale (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 15 June 1799), lot 112; annotated in Douce's copy of the catalogue ‘0. 7. 6.d', and in Sotheby's annotated copy ‘Douce' and the same price. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 192.

Copy number: J-190(3)

Wanting the blank leaves [e1] and [C6].

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled dark purple/maroon crushed morocco, stamped with the arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina in gilt, and with the inscription: ‘J. Gomez de la Cortina et amicorum' above, and his motto ‘Fallitur hora legendo' below, and with marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves; bound for Gomez by Gil of Madrid; see Richard Copley Christie, The Marquis de Morante: His Library and its Catalogue (Manchester, 1883), 9.

Size: 282 × 214 × 41 mm.

Size of leaf: 273 × 192 mm.

Early marginal annotations, consisting mainly of extraction of key words, and ‘nota' marks. Manuscript list of contents on the verso of the front endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.

Three- to eight-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; running book numbers, capital strokes, and underlining supplied in red.

Provenance: Joaquin Gomez de la Cortina (1808-68), 1st Marques de Morante; purchased by Gomez de la Cortina for 155 pes[etas] [assuming that the purchase was made in Spain]; arms on binding; armorial book-plate; see his Catalogus librorum, with this item probably listed in vol. V no. 7694; a note on the front pastedown ‘cat., no. 1435', is probably a reference to the Gomez sale. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 1817. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. F 2.15.