The reasons for placing this book second are given above at pp. 241–2:
if they are regarded as sufficient, we must take “1479” in the Aegidius
as what we should call 1480, which is in agreement with the ordinary
usage of the time and which gains a slight probability, in that the
printing would have been finished on a Sunday, if the year were taken as
1478/9. All copies are poorly printed. It was quite fitting that the
first book printed at Oxford should be theological and the second the
Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.
_Copies known._
1. British Museum. Wanting a 1, a blank leaf. In this copy alone there
is a director for the large O of _Omnis_ on b 1^r. Owned by Will.
Davis in 1792: then in the Grenville Library: marked “7. p. 115.
1,” 8. D. 5, 163. B. 2, G. 7930, and now C. 2. a. 7. Bound with it
is a manuscript translation into Latin of Aristotle’s ©Œconomica©
and ©Politics©, dedicated to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester.
2. Bodleian. Perfect. In this copy at o 2^r and o 2^v is a ć printed
in the margin, apparently meaning “cancel,” since the recto is
printed askew. Manuscript notes show that the book, which is in
contemporary binding, was at first in the hands of an Oxford
student (?) who received pittance from the Prior of Oseney. Then
“Codex Michaelis Canni.” Owned by John Selden, among whose books
it came to the Library in 1659. Marked 8^o A. 17 Art. Seld., Auct.
Q. 1. 5. 17, Auct. R. supr. 8, and now S. Selden e. 2.
3. All Souls College, Oxford. Perfect. Bound with the Jerome (see p.
252).