Extent: A–F⁶. 197 × 139 × 12 mm (size of leaf 190 × 135 mm).
4°.
Decoration: Woodcut on A1r showing a teacher sitting on a
high-backed chair and holding a switch of birch twigs in his right
hand, with three pupils sitting in front of him on a bench, each
reading from a book; see Hodnett no. 919; The state of the woodcut
and the device is earlier than in Sulpitius, 4 Dec. 1499;
Correction to the text in red ink on B1r; pointing hands in pencil
on B3v –B4r.
Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century calf.
Provenance: Smyth (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r:
‘Smyth. pretii vi d’. Acquired before 1898: seen by Proctor.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 2.19.