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NICHOLAS DE BYARD, GUILLAUME PERAULT &c. S. XIV1

Merton College MS. 67

Merton College, University of Oxford

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Title

NICHOLAS DE BYARD, GUILLAUME PERAULT &c. S. XIV1

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 67

Place of origin

England

Date

S. XIV1

Language

Latin

Contents

fols. i, ii blank. On fol. iv is a table of contents, s. xiv ex.
1. (fols. 3v–90v) Nicholas Byard Distinctiones Theologicae
2. (fols. 91–168v) Guillelmus Peraldus OP Sermons on the Sunday Epistles
3. (fols. 169–96) Guillelmus Peraldus OP De Vitiis et Virtutibus abbrev. (Speculum Beatorum)
4. (fols. 196–211) Ps.-Bernard Speculum Conscientiae
5. (fols. 211–16) Richard Rolle Emendatio Vitae
6. (fols. 216–17v; 218–19v blank) John of Damascus De Fide Orthodoxa,

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

221 leaves (ii + 219) The edges heavily retrimmed and spattered with red.

Hands

Large, loose anglicana hands.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on seven bands; formerly chained from the usual position. An earlier binding had two straps, and possibly the large iron chain-staple at the rear.

Provenance

At the head of fol. ivis ‘Liber Hamundi Haydok ex empcione’. At the head of fol. iivis ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone ex dono magistri Hamundi Haydok incathenatus in libraria anno Domini M. CCCC. LXVIII.’ For Hammond Haydok, see MS 16.

At the head of fol. 4 is the James no. ‘195’, s. xvii in. (also in MS 252). Inside the front board is pasted a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘O. 2. 1. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘N. 6. 1. Art:’, s. xvii, the second canc. and replaced with ‘K. 2. 1 (LXVII)’, in red. ‘1’ is inked on the foredge.

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  • Johannes, Damascenus, 675-749

  • Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271

  • Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349

  • Burgundio, da Pisa, approximately 1110-1194

  • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153, pseudo

  • Haydock, Hamond, M.A., B.Th., -1465

  • Nicolaus, de Byarto, ca. 13th cent.

  • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636

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