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The evidence of the seventeenth-century lists of Selden’s books would appear to confirm that the consolidation of Parts I and II took place after his death. A handwritten catalogue of his printed books and manuscripts (now MS. Selden Supra 111) was prepared soon after his death and before the arrival of the collection to Bodley, perhaps in 1655 while his collection was still housed at his London residence, Carmelite House (home of Elizabeth, Countess of Kent). The Codex Mendoza is listed in the section for books “In the Furthermost Roome but one Westwards:” (folios 121v-128r), in that room’s final bookpress headed “F.” Section “F” contains 88 numbered items, of which no. 31-88 appear under the subheading “Libri Arab:”. Most of F’s books are indeed oriental (if not Arabic).5 The Codex Mendoza appears at no. 51 (folio 127v): “Historia Mexicana Hispanica cum Figuris fol’. Ms’”. This corresponds almost exactly with the seventeenth-century inscriptions on folio iir of the Codex Mendoza, “MS. fo” and “Historia Mexicana, Hispanice. Cum figuris, quasi hieroglyphicis.”