GROSSETESTE, Ps.-JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, GREGORY; S. XIV in., XV in.
Merton College MS. 10
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
GROSSETESTE, Ps.-JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, GREGORY; S. XIV in., XV in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 10
Place of origin
England
Date
s. XV in.
s. xiv in
s. xv in
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
233 leaves (iv+229) the edges retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
I and III are in gothic rotunda bookhands of ‘university’ type, those of II with some anglicana letter-forms. II and fols. 225–6 are in a neat anglicana, which corrects the text of I.
Binding
s. xix, sewn on five bands. fols. i-iii, 227–9 are blank paper binding leaves.
Provenance
This was presumably the volume with the same secundo folio pledged seven times by a group of fellows between 1445 and 1455 (see below, MS 154). The rear flyleaves, on which these transactions would have been recorded, are missing.
On fol. ivv twice, in different hands, ‘Liber [ ... ]’, s. xv; an erased cautio of four lines, s. xv in.: ‘Causio magistri Walteri H[… exposita] cista W[ … ] habend’ / proxima [post festum sancti] Ambrosii [anno Domini ... et habet] / duo supplementa una magister sentenciarum [ ... ] sec. fol. tendit.’ Above the first line is an addition ‘Iohannis Carlel Hugonis Dodeke et [Ricardi ?Andrew] et Iohannis Glastoniensis’. An erased inscription, s. xv, ‘Iste liber datur domui scolarum de Mertonhalle in Oxonia per M. Henricum Abendone custodem eiusdem domus ut incathenetur libraria nec exhibendus sine custodis et vi. seniorum licencia speciali’. The table of contents immediately below this is in the same hand. The inscription is of the same form and in the same hand as that in MS 154. Abingdon (BRUO 7–8) was warden from 1421 until his death in 1437. His inscription is partly hidden under a scribble of s. xvi ‘here was Wylle’; a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii, ‘N. 1. 10. Art.’, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 2. 10 (X)’ in purple, itself canc. and replaced with ‘E. 1. 2’ in red. At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘51’ (recte 151), s. xvii in.
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