Formerly ascribed to [Theodoricus Rood]; BMC identifies as [Printer
of Rufinus]. See D. E. Rhodes, ‘Variants in the 1479 Oxford
Edition of Aristotle's Ethics', Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956),
209-12, repr. in Dennis E. Rhodes, Studies in Early European
Printing and Book Collecting (London, 1983), 8-11. For variants see
BMC.
Extent: Collation: a–x8 y6. Size: 208 × 143 × 42 mm. Size of
leaf: 202 × 126 mm.
Binding: Contemporary English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf over
wooden boards, one clasp lost. On both covers double fillets form a
double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by stamps into
triangular compartments. In the compartments and the inner frame
three different stamps: a square squirrel stamp, a round
lamb-and-flag stamp, and a rectangular floral staff stamp. For the
binding see Gibson, Oxford Bindings, stamped binding no. 9, pl.
vii, tools 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. The gold stamp of the Bodleian
Library on both covers. The binding is listed by Graham Pollard in
his notes on Oxford bindings, Bodleian Library, MS. Pollard 326,
fol. 31. Pastedowns and endleaves from a fourteenth-century
parchment manuscript of commentaries on civil law; see Ker,
Pastedowns, no. 38; the front are not from the same work as the
rear leaves. The front pastedown and endleaves contain the Glossa
ordinaria of Accursius without the later additional ‘Casus' of
Vivianus to the Digestum vetus, covering 1.5.5.2 to 1.6.10 (the
fragment breaks off towards the end of the gloss ‘Alimentorum').
The commentary on the rear pastedown and endleaves may be to
Digestum 28.1.6, perhaps from one of the fourteenth-century
standard texts.
Provenance: On a2r ‘Codex Michaelis Canni'. John Selden
(1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 85. Presented in 1659.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8° A 17 Art. Seld.; Auct. 1Q 5.17 (in
1843); Auct. R sup. 8.
