Otto Ege's Terence: An Addendum

Last weekend I posted about Otto Ege's manuscript of Terence's Comedies. I reproduced at the top of the page an image of a leaf in a private collection in California that I was able to examine a few weeks ago, thanks to the very kind hospitality of the owner. After he read my post, he contacted me to tactfully draw my attention to the fact that I seemed to have made an oversight.

He observed that in an earlier blogpost about the manuscript, written last year, I had reproduced the short description of the parent volume from de Ricci's Census, in which it is suggested that the volume had been sold at Sotheby's, 28 May 1934, lot 100, and bought by "Marks":

I have not yet been able to verify this by consulting a copy of the 1934 catalogue, but I have no reason to think that de Ricci was mistaken. Assuming he was right, I must therefore correct my own suggestion last weekend, that Dawson's Book Shop of Los Angeles bought it from the London bookseller E.P. Goldschmidt; Goldschmidt was presumably the vendor at the Sotheby's sale, and Dawson's must instead, presumably, have got it from "Marks", i.e. the well-known London bookshop Marks & Co. (of 84, Charing Cross Road, made famous by the book and film of that name [Wikipedia]):

(The site has changed hands several times since the bookshop closed, and is currently occupied by a McDonald's [Google Streetview]).

Dawson's apparently had a deep business and personal relationship with Marks & Co. In the issue of The Publishers' Weekly for September 15, 1928 (vol. CXIV, no. 11, p. 867), Ernest Dawson published "Old and Rare for American Needs: Browsings in Old Book Shops of Europe", an account of his foreign book-buying trips, which includes this paragraph:

and in Dawson's Catalogue 142 (April 1940), celebrating 35 years in business, Ernest recorded that his son, Glen, who was by then a partner in the company, "Spent several months in London ... under the expert tutelage of Mark Cohen of Marks & Co., Charing Cross Road ...":

de Ricci records that Ege bought the Terence manuscript from Dawson's in 1935, and when de Ricci prepared his Census (1937) descriptions of Ege's collection, apparently in very late 1936 or early 1937, it was still in its medieval binding and comprised 103 leaves. We know that Ege must have broken it within a very few years, because at least one leaf was with Philip Duschnes in time to appear in his Catalogue 38 (Spring 1940), no. 278:

Apart from correcting last week's mistake and adding a few details above, a second reason for this post is to illustrate two of the leaves of the Terence manuscript, both now at Boston University's School of Theology, whose illuminated initials "have been cut out and replaced by modern initials on pieces of vellum clumsily stuck in":

 

[Edited, 29 May 2023:] Henry Woudhuysen has very kindly sent me a copy of the 1934 Sotheby's catalogue entry mentioned above, so we can confirm that de Ricci was indeed correct in his identification: