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This catalogue entry makes no mention of the monetary tables of Part 2, and indeed the heading at the start of “F” (folio 126v) reads, “Bookes unbound.” It seems likely that this heading may apply to all 88 books listed below. The word “Unbound,” if genuinely applicable to Codex Mendoza, nevertheless should have included at least the paper flyleaves of the sixteenth-century French binding, since they are still present today and may be stretched to cover at least a limp binding.

Some leaves earlier, the catalogue listed manuscripts “In the roome at the long end of the Librarie” (folio 103r ff.). At Shelf “C” presumably of that room, under the heading “English Manuscripts:” (folio 109r), Item 6 comprised “English & Roman Standards Compared, fo: M:S:’ ”. This title seems to be an appropriate description for Part 2 (the heading of the first table at folio 73v starts, “The first Romane Standerd of Silver…”) and the identification is confirmed by the appearance of the number “6”, boldly written in ink at the top center of folio 73r.6