Copy number: P-032(1)

Binding: Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with metal catches and remains of a leather clasp. Rebacked. On both covers, triple fillets form a frame. Within the frame, diagonal triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, each decorated with a circular dragon stamp set within a rectangle (not shown by Oldham nor Weale-Taylor). Fragments of a Prognosticatio pro anno 1498(?) [London: Richard Pynson, 1497?] (P‑476), removed from this binding, now Inc. c. E7.1(11).

Size: 308 × 215 × 60 mm.

Size of leaf: 298 × 205 mm.

Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and summarizing key points, in English and Latin, in an early English humanist hand, brown ink.

Provenance: John Adeson (sixteenth century); name on a2r and I7v. Thomas Adam (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘M^r Duncombe I pray returne my books again within a month. Julii 22. Tuus Thomas Adam'; below, in the same hand, a verse: ‘I told you erst as I rememember(!) thus | that Cropp was plac't' in roome of Irga[ ]a[ ] | but now I hear the carter Charles hath tan | these Bishopps both Croppe[ ] and yoakt them to his wayne | and armed all if that they yeile them not | will driv his cartes ‘gainst the rebellious Scott | ffor much it is against the mynde of the Starrs | that Subiects gainst their soueraigne should make warrs'; below, a note in the same hand: ‘Certayne Limpimeters or haltinge Rymes | Upon the most omnipact' [ ] [ ]tiferous | Gellipp[ ]ggo[ ]rottiferous Naggs in Norfolke | Cropps of Martyn'. Shelfmark ‘N^o 1590' on a1r. ‘M^r Baker (struck through: above, ‘Millisent') oweth this boke. witnes Thomas Farrant . . . date the 10 of July Anno Dominis 1619'. Robert Millisent (seventeenth century); Thomas Millisent; these names on a3r and q8v in a seventeenth-century hand(?). Date of acquisition unknown; no indication from the shelfmark.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 2.6.

SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.23.

Copy number: P-032(2)

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and I8.

Binding: Sixteenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf; two ties lost; yellow-edged leaves. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of upper cover. Triple fillets form a triple frame; a decorative stamp at each corner of the second and third frames and a centrepiece within the inner rectangle; see Ker, Pastedowns, centrepiece, pl. x no. vi(a); ornament, pl. xiv no. 58.

Size: 270 × 215 × 53 mm.

Size of leaf: 264 × 190 mm.

Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in two different early hands. In the upper margin of a3r a note probably in Brokesby's hand: ‘To ye right honorable John Fortescue one of her majesty privye counsill and chancelor of ye Exchequer [ ]'.

Provenance: Bartholomeus Brokesby (fl. 1565); inscription on a2r, b6v, and I7v: ‘Bartholomeus Brokesby 1565'. Date of acquisition unknown; no indication from the shelfmark; not identified in James, Catalogus (1620) or in Hyde, Catalogus (1674).

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: M 12. 9 Th.; M 9. 3 Th. (`3' in black ink at head of the fore-edge and in white at head of the spine); Auct. QQ sup. 2.7.

SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.24.

Copy number: P-032(3)

Wanting a6 supplied in type-facsimile, and I8 containing Pynson's device 1. Also wanting leaves a1 and² a1, both blank. Gathering B bound after H.

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled dark blue morocco, the spine gold-tooled; gauffered and gilt-edged leaves and brown silk bookmark; bound for John Bellingham Inglis (ex informatione Andrew Honey).

Size: 297 × 218 × 43 mm.

Size of leaf: 287 × 200 mm.

Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, but also ‘nota' marks and pointing hands, in an eighteenth-century(?) hand.

Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870); binding evidence (see above); sale, 9 June 1826, lot 606. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 236.

Copy number: P-032(4)

Binding: Bound as fols 1-3 in a modern guard-book.

A fragment consisting of leaf m2 and sheet e3.6.

Size of leaves: 265/283 × 184/209 mm.

Provenance: John de Monins Johnson (1882-1953). Transferred to the Bodleian in 1968.

SHELFMARK: Johnson c. 371(2).

Copy number: P-032(5)

Binding: Bound as fols 4-5 in a modern guard-book.

A fragment consisting of leaves e3 and e6, separated.

Size of leaves: 293 × 215 mm.

Provenance: See item 4 above.

SHELFMARK: Johnson c. 371(2).