W/S-11-10

Shelfmark W/S-11-10

Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius. Boetius cum triplici commento. Autii [sic] Manlii Torquati Seuerini Boetij ... Consolatio philosophica: & disciplina scholarium: Cum argutissimis diui Thome: & Iodoci Badii Ascensij commentarijs ... [Lyon]: [1512].

In an early sixteenth-century English blind-stamped binding.

Inscription on title page: Liber Christopheri Bagshawi dono Patr[is]; Inscription on final leaf of text: Chrystopher Bagshawe oweth thys good […]; Inscription on D2v: CC Bagshawe oweth thys booke wytnesseth Edmunde Tytte.

Inscription on title page: Ad Germente[m]? Saunders p[er]tinet hic [Go]d[w]ellus p[re]cij xxd; inscription on a2r: Germenti Saunders p[er]tinet hic [Go]duellus

Inscription on a2r: Liber Coll: Scti Joannis Baptistæ, Oxon, ex legato Henrici Price, sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaurei, et huius Coll: olim Socij. Obijt 2° Februarij. 1600.

Inscription on a2r: Jo: Brasier (?) em: a Collegio 1665

Inscription on front pastedown: George Bellas D.D. 1777.

Bookplate on front pastedown: Benjamin Harrison.

The blind-stamped binding (with clasps and a possible chain-staple hole) suggests that the book started life in a pre-Reformation college or religious house. It then seems to have belonged to an unidentified sixteenth-century owner, Germen Saunders.

It next belonged to the Jesuit Christopher Bagshawe (d. 1625), a former fellow of Balliol and Gloucester Hall, Oxford, who took a D.D. at the University of Paris and was imprisoned in the Tower under Elizabeth I. It was given to Bagshaw by his father and his ownership is witnessed by Edmund Tytte.

The book's next owner was Henry Price (1567-1600), fellow of St John's College, Oxford, who left it to the college library. It was bought from the college later in the seventeenth century by John Brasier (b. c. 1635)

In the eighteenth century the book was owned by the Rev. George Bellas (d. 1802), who took his B.A. at Queen's College, Oxford.

It finally belonged to Archdeacon Benjamin Harrison (1808-1887), of Christ Church, Oxford, whose library was given to the Cathedral in 1887 by his widow.