Title from printed catalog. Support: Paper. Script: Secretary. Layout: 1-46 5-64 76 84 9-186 192 2016. Catchwords usually in the lower right corner of the recto and verso of each leaf. 29-40 lines of verse, frame ruled in brownish-red ink. Watermark(s): Post, similar to Heawood 3499, dated 1617, and Grapes similar to Heawood 2101, in Rochester, and to Heawood 2106, England 1622. Span folios: ff. 1-120v. Assigned Date: s. XVIIin. Former pressmark, 11637. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012. Inscribed on f. i, s. XVII, the name "Henry Platt" and, in the same hand, "Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum" [Walther, Initia 6345]. Also on f. i, the pressmark "P:2." in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater, corrected to "P:2./7." by the second Earl (1622-86); and, in modern pencil, "6711" corrected to "11637." The current Bridgewater pressmark, "35 C 39...
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