Copy number: M-008(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [rum6].

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; bound for the Bodleian Library(?); lined with fragments from a printed sixteenth-century(?) Greek-Latin dictionary; with remains of ties. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover.

Size: 197 × 153 × 43 mm.

Size of leaf: 193 × 139 mm.

Cropped early English marginal annotations, including some brief summaries of the text, comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands, also underlining in the text in both black and red ink, scribbles and drawings (a human face with its tongue sticking out in the inner margin of p1r). On a1r a list of the subjects discussed in each of the books on natural philosophy. On [rum3v] is a list in two sixteenth-century hands of payments by Alexander Cokke to John More.

Provenance: John More (sixteenth century); list of payments (see above). Alexander Cooke (sixteenth century). Thomas Rutt (1604-post 1624); name on the recto of the front endleaf. Henry Tookey (fl. 1629-1662), 1629; inscriptions on [rum5v]: ‘Tobiam(!) Swinburne Linc[o]l[niensis] testis est Henricum Tookeiu[m] verum solumque istius Magistri esse magistrum'; and, in red ink, ‘Henricus Tookie est magister huius magistri Joannis de Magistris 1629 Martii 6'. Other names in seventeenth-century(?) hands on f5v: Atkinson, Thompson, Sir Thomas Mounjoy; and on g3r: Williamson; on s2r: John Smith. Acquired by 1674: see Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 421.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: D 2.4 Art.

SHELFMARK: B 2. 17 Linc.