On the first blank leaf is the following in the handwriting of Sir Thomas Fairfax:
‘Sr. John Gower’s learned Poems the same booke by himself presented to kinge Henry ye fourth before his Coronation.’
(Originally this was ‘att his Coronation,’ then ‘att or before his Coronation,’ and finally the words ‘att or’ were struck through with the pen.)
Then lower down in the same hand:
‘For my honorable freind & kinsman sr. Thomas Gower knt. and Baronett from
Ffairfax 1656.’
On the verso of the second leaf near the left-hand top corner is written a name which appears to be ‘Rychemond,’ and there is added in a different hand of the sixteenth century:
‘Liber Hen: Septimi tunc comitis Richmond manu propria script.’
On the fifth leaf, where the text of the book begins, in the right-hand top corner, written in the hand of Fairfax:
‘ffairfax No 265