Ps-DIONYSIUS; S. XV
Merton College MS. 69
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps-DIONYSIUS; S. XV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 69
Place of origin
France, Paris (?)
Date
s. xv med
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
173 leaves (iii + 170)The edges retrimmed, affecting running heads and marginalia, and stained yellow.
Hands
Proficient French hands (including the table of contents), changing with quires but also over shorter stints, writing littera bastarda or gothic rotunda bookhand, except for fols. 123–33v, in textura.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; red underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on eight bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i and 170 were pastedowns in an earlier binding. Near the foot of fol. 170v are four holes from the large brass chain-staple, patched on the recto with a scrap from a book of s. xiv, with text written in anglicana.
Provenance
Probably made in Paris; at the College soon after s. xv med.
At the head of fol. iiiv is ‘B. lir13us’, in a humanistic hand (cf. MS 87 &c).
Inside the front board is ‘N. 6. 3. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced by ‘K. 2. 2. (LXIX)’ in red, the ‘K. 2. 2.’ canc. and replaced by ‘E. 2. 2.’, itself canc. and replaced by ‘P. 1. 2’ in ink of text. Below is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and the College bookplate. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge.
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