Copy number: R-142(1)

The last gathering is of six leaves, the last two blank. The second leaf as originally printed bore on the recto the woodcut of fol. [*4r] and was in consequence cancelled, as is shown by the stub of the leaf visible in this copy. A single leaf bearing on the recto the woodcut of [*5v] (`Ofni & finees') and not forming part of the gathering is inserted after [*5]; cf. BMC note on the Munich copy used by Hain. The initial C at the beginning of Aetas VI does not contain the cut of the Virgin and Child. Wanting the two blank leaves.

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf (fillets only) over wooden boards, with metal corner-pieces. Gilt title on a rectangular green leather label at the head of the spine. Bosses and centre-piece lost. Index tabs made of little strips from parchment manuscripts and ending in a knot.

Size: 401 × 300 × 135 mm.

Size of leaf: 390 × 288 mm.

Bibliographical notes in Latin and French in a late eighteenth/nineteenth-century hand in brown ink, on a paper leaf pasted onto the front pastedown.

Manuscript foliation: i–ccccviii and the number of the ‘etas' heading the recto of each leaf in red ink. Occasional corrections and ‘nota' marks in an early hand in brown ink. On [H7v] a marginal note summarizing a key point relating to crosses.

Initials are supplied in red, the names in the cuts underlined (except in the preliminary gathering); paragraph marks and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red; capital strokes also in red.

Provenance: Roermond, Limburg, Canons Regular of the Holy Cross; inscriptions on [*1r] and on the leaf inserted after [*5]: ‘Conuentus Cruciferorum Ruremundae'; ‘Liber Fratrum Crucigerorum Ruraemundae'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce 278.

Copy number: R-142(2)

Wanting [*10] and sheet [P6]. Leaves [*8] and [*9] are transposed, and sheet [r6] is bound within gathering [o].

Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf, with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Rebacked. Remains of two sets of leather ties. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head and tail of upper cover. Red-edged leaves. ‘5' in black ink across the fore-edge. Triple fillets form a triple intersecting frame. No tooling within the outer frame. Within the following frame a double cresting roll. The inner rectangle is divided into four triangular sections by the diagonally run roll.

Size: 398 × 300 × 110 mm.

Size of leaf: 394 × 285 mm.

Manuscript foliation 1-432. Early signatures partially visible. Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands in a sixteenth-century hand. ‘Lamone de Modam(?)' in an early French(?) hand on [X6v]; early inscription, almost completely erased, in French, on the rear endleaf: ‘Ce livre . . .’

Woodcuts, genealogical tables, and principal initials are painted in several colours; other initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with black and red pen-work decoration, in red with blue or black pen-work decoration, or in blue with red pen-work decoration; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Acquired by 1605: see James, Catalogus (1605), 300.

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: C 4.1 Art; C 3.5 Art; Auct. P 1.1.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 1.1.

Copy number: R-142(3)

Bound with A‑408; see there for details of binding and provenance.

Size of leaf: 280 × 205 mm.

Two fragments of [*4] and [*5] used as pastedowns.

SHELFMARK: Broxb. 20.4(1).