Copy number: T-144(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [p10].

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; azure silk bookmark.

Size: 290 × 214 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 283 × 200 mm.

A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, providing corrections to the texts and pointing hands, in a sixteenth-century German hand in brown ink. On the verso of the front endleaf, a bibliographical note in French, signed ‘M.', i.e. Count MacCarthy. ‘26683 x' in brown ink in the lower margin of the rear endleaf.

Intials are supplied in red, sometimes with brown pen-work decoration; paragraph marks and capital strokes also in red.

Provenance: A washed-out inscription on [*1] in a contemporary hand. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); sale (1815), lot 589. Other books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired between 1830 and 1860.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.42.

Copy number: T-144(2)

Wanting the blank leaf [p10].

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Yellow-edged leaves sprinkled with red.

Size: 283 × 205 × 38 mm.

Size of leaf: 268 × 190 mm.

On [p10v] the blank space of the leaf has been ruled in brown ink and filled with an incomplete manuscript list of contents, in an early German hand in brown ink.

Some initials are supplied in brown ink.

Provenance: Purchased for £0. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1845), 2.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 4.7.