GUILLAUME PEYRAULT ; S. XIV in.
Merton College MS. 233
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
GUILLAUME PEYRAULT ; S. XIV in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 233
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV in
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
220 leaves (iii + 217) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
Two English rotunda gothic bookhands (dividing at quires 4/5) influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; red running heads.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired, sewn on five bands. Fols. i and 217 are modern paper blanks. Fols. ii-iii are of thick, stiff parchment.
Provenance
On f. iii is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton Oxon’’, s. xv.
At the head of f. 1 is a title, s. xvii. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with titles and ‘F. 2, 9’ (canc.), s. xvii, and ‘P. 2. 16. Art:’, canc. and replaced by ‘N. 2. 6 (CCXXXIII)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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