William Paull (alias de Pagula), Summa summarum; England, s. xivex

Title

William Paull (alias de Pagula), Summa summarum; England, s. xivex

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 19

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xivex

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

323 leaves

Hands

A poor English gothic quadrata, punctuated by low point. Rubrics are by the scribe, in anglicana or bastard anglicana.

Decoration

A major initial has presumably been lost with the removal of the original quire 1 and the first leaf of the present quire 1. On fol. 1v is a 6-line red and blue lombard with extender and there are similar initials, with the addition of mauve flourishing, at the beginning of the other books.

Two-line plain red initials, with guide letters. Rubrics with guide-wording for rubricator in margins in scribe’s hand. Red paraphs; some red running titles ‘liber’ and ‘1’ etc. on facing pages.

Binding

Sewn on six bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century.

Provenance

The medieval history of the book is unknown. From the 2º fo it appears to be no. 2 in the list of books given to Merton College by William Rede in 1400, on which see Watson, Exeter, p. XV n. 1 , and was presumably at one time there.

It is recorded at Exeter c. 1600 as Ecloga, no. 2, then in CMA, no. 48.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, the book stamp, ‘Ex. Coll. Oxon.’, ‘Q–7–7 [deleted] Gall.’, ‘172–E–12’, ‘B1-H’ (deleted) and ‘Coxe Cat. no. XIX’.