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The catalogue evidence proves that the two parts now bound together as MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1 were still separate at the time of John Selden’s death in 1654, as catalogued in London circa 1655, but that they were listed together by Thomas Lockey during his period as Bodley’s Librarian before his resignation on November 29, 1665. However, within that period it is not clear where that binding took place, whether in London between 1655 and 1659 or in Oxford between 1655 and 1665. During that decade, a great deal of activity had taken place over Selden’s books to ensure that they were safely transferred to Oxford and made available on the shelves at the far end of Duke Humfrey’s Library. Part of that process involved binding together various thin manuscripts of booklet thickness into larger volumes, apparently on no other basis aside from approximately matching size. It was this process which left the fifteenth-century Selden Carol Book bound up not only with an eighth-century leaf of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, but also with William Cartwright’s 1630s play The Royall Slave and with other further pieces. These were assembled in one of the bindings of brown leather to form the composite volume now shelfmarked as MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26.

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