Copy number: L-204(1)

Wanting the blank leaf m6.

The lower margin of i7 has been mutilated.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English blind-tooled calf; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover.

Size: 287 × 212 × 32 mm.

Size of leaf: 275 × 196 mm.

Early marginal notes in English, including verses and proverbs, also manuscript copies or draft copies of letters, including one on a5v written at ‘Bekenor' [probably English Bicknor, Gloucestershire]. On a1r moral sayings ascribed to Seneca. On l8r-m1r the answer of Henry Chambur to a complaint by John Powle against him, regarding horses, written in a sixteenth-century hand; on m5r is a manuscript copy of a writ of inquiry in a case of armed disorder at Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire, on 3 Dec. 1537, naming Margaret Smythe and John Stokes; on m5v is a manuscript list of names, including that of John Stokes, and payments of the same period.

One- to three-line initials and paragraph marks supplied in red.

Provenance: Thomas S[ ]ll (late fifteenth century); draft of letter, signed by him, on a3r. Henry Chamber [Chambur] (sixteenth century). John Powle (sixteenth century); draft letter (see above). Margaret Smythe (fl. 1537). John Stokes (fl. 1537); draft writ (see above). Susan Butler (sixteenth century(?)); name on [*2v]. Thomas Butler (sixteenth century(?)); perhaps Thomas Butler or Botelar (1487?-1571); name on d1r. Thomas Wilson (sixteenth century); name on l8v. Jane Hornyold or Horniold (seventeenth century(?)); cancelled inscription on m5v, across the list of names and payments: ‘Jane Horniold her booke'. John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Add. C. 40, p. 20, col. 2, with date given as ‘1554', which is clearly a mistake, copied from the preceding entry. Presented in 1659.

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: H 1. 2 Art. Seld. (Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 401); Auct. QQ 1.10; Auct. QQ sup. 1.10.

SHELFMARK: S. Seld. d.10.