Fragments:—British Museum (one leaf, y 3, in MS. Harl. 5919, no. 139):
Wadham College, Oxford (1½ leaves): Brasenose College, Oxford
(several leaves): parts of two leaves (q 6 and another) were
offered by A. Iredale, bookseller of Torquay (catal. 31, Oct.
1887, no. 1) for 21_s._
The Printing Press at Oxford ceases its work suddenly in 1486/7, and
there is no reason for this stop at present known. The printing at St.
Alban’s ceased at about the same time. It has been suggested that Rood
left Oxford for Cologne, where a Theodericus printed books in 1485 and
1486 in a type similar to that of the Ales and Latteburius. In this case
Hunt may have continued for a short time alone, and then relinquished
the work.
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Footnote 6:
None is paged: nor are there catchwords.
Footnote 7:
Exclusive of headline, signatures, and marginal notes.
Footnote 8:
With fragments of the book, independently of copies.
Footnote 9:
As these pages pass through the press I am informed by Mr. E. G. Duff
that Lord Crawford possesses an edition of Horace’s Opuscula printed
in “1470” with signatures.
Footnote 10:
Blades was under the erroneous impression that Koelhoff printed at
Lübeck, instead of Cologne: where also books with manuscript
signatures occur later than 1472.
Footnote 11:
In 1467 Ulric Zel of Cologne (see p. 242) was unacquainted with the
setting-rule, which made evenness easy: he adopted it in 1468–9, but
Colard Mansion at Bruges not till 1478 (Blades, ©Books in Chains©, p.
128).
Footnote 12: