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Notes
Except that Duff, Fifteenth Century English Books (1917), no. 32, notes that in the capital-space on 9r both British Museum copies have a printed guide-letter O, which is absent in other copies. He further notes that on 2r, 11.6 and 7, the misprints 'visitatum' (for 'usitatum') and 'insidnant' (for 'insudant'), which are visible in the British Museum copy, have been corrected in all other copies by erasure occasionally supplemented by inking. It may be remarked that correction by inking without erasure is here found in one of the British Museum copies (C.2.a.7.). These manuscript corrections were presumably carried out in the printer's office.
It is just possible that this copy is now the Broxbourne copy, which also lacks four leaves, not including the first blank; but no indication is provided by the book itself that its previous owners were other than the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. See also Falconer Madan, Oxford Books, (vol. 2, Oxford Literature 1450-1650, and 1641-1650, p. 3): "Lord Ashburnham's copy was the Bright copy and became Lord Amherst's, sold in turn in 1909 (sic)". But Madan does not name the next purchaser.
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