Copy number: S-018(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [h8].

Binding: Nineteenth-century red morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library by H. Walther; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark.

Size: 281 × 202 × 20 mm.

Size of leaf: 271 × 190 mm.

A marginal note in a contemporary Italian hand, supplying a maxim by ‘Pius papa'. A few marginal and interlinear notes in a later Italian hand, supplying brackets, corrections to the text, synonyms, pointing hands, and brief comments on the text.

On [a1r] a five-line initial ‘O' is supplied in red, on a pen-work square, partly coloured in blue; the pen-work decoration within the body of the letter is partly coloured in yellow. On [c3r] a six-line initial ‘F' is supplied in blue on a pen-work square, partly coloured in red; the pen-work decoration within the body of the letter is partly coloured in green or red. Elsewhere three-line initials are supplied in red, some with pen-work decoration extending into the margins.

Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785)(?); presumably Morelli (1787), lot 2919 (‘exemplar nitidissimum'); sale (1789), lot 7820. Purchased (through Peter Elmsley?) for £4. 15. 0; annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 6.

SHELFMARK: Auct. N. 3.22

Copy number: S-018(2)

Wanting the blank leaf [h8].

Binding: Seventeenth-century calf; the spine gold-tooled; the author's name in gilt on a brown leather label on the spine; sprinkled red- and black-edged leaves.

Size: 242 × 176 × 29 mm.

Size of leaf: 235 × 165 mm.

A few marginal and interlinear notes in a contemporary Italian hand, supplying brackets, pointing hands, synonyms, and glosses. Notes in the hand of Alexander Garnerius, supplying pointing hands, underlining, and comments in Italian and Latin.

On [a1r] the initial ‘O' is supplied in red with reserved white decoration on a darker red square; the space within the body of the initial is roughly coloured in green and brown. Red pen-work decoration outlined in green and brown extends into the left margin, with two flowers coloured in black and red at the tip. On [c3r] the initial ‘F' is supplied in red with marginal extensions in a darker red. Elsewhere two- to three-line initials are supplied in red. Capitals on [a1r] are touched with yellow wash.

Provenance: Alexander Garnerius (sixteenth century); see the initials ‘A. G.' on [a1r] and inscription on [a9v]. Manuscript shelfmark ‘H. 2. 8' on the recto of the front endleaf. John Adrian Louis Hope (1860-1908), 7th Earl of Hopetoun; see armorial book-plate (Howe, Book Plates, 15273/4), with shelfmark ‘T 7' in black ink; his sale (25 Feb. 1889), lot 1182. Purchased for £1. 15. 0; James Tregaskis, Catalogue 220 (25 Feb. 1891?), no. 246; Library Bills (1891).

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.38.