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[Ex inf. Alison McKay, Head of Conservation Workshop, 14 Aug. 1998, who observed that since 1985-6 this recipe has been slightly modified.]

ssss1 On p. 43, Lestringant casts some doubts on the 1553 date, but ultimately accepts it.

ssss1 An extended version of this section was published by B.C. Barker-Benfield (2000, 17:96-105) as “The Bindings of Codex Mendoza.”

ssss1 Translation of the relevant passage quoted by H. B. Nicholson in his contribution to the 1992 facsimile.

ssss1 Items 85-87 refer to a “Rotulus,” “Liber,” and “Volume(n)” in hieroglyphics, with which it is tempting to correlate the Selden Roll (MS. Arch. Selden. A. 72(3)) and (with the second or third entry) Codex Selden (MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2); but, what was the third item?

ssss1 Also on folio 73r, but well away at the center left on the broad parchment guard, is the letter “M”[?] in ink. Although this does not correspond to the “C” of no. 6’s shelf, this could nevertheless be another shelf-letter: similar matches between volume numbers in the catalogue’s listings, alongside differing shelf-letters, occur with other Selden manuscripts, see B. C. Barker-Benfield, op cit. supra, p. 31 and n. 8. The explanation must be simply that the shelves were allocated different letters at some point, whilst their contents retained the same order.