WILLIAM OF WARE ON I-IV SENT. &c.; S. XIV in.

Title

WILLIAM OF WARE ON I-IV SENT. &c.; S. XIV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 103

Place of origin

script of French appearance

England, Oxford (?)

Date

s. xiii ex

S. XIV in

s. xiii

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

261 leaves (260, incl. 201A) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia and spattered with red.

Hands

The main hand is a small, neat gothic rotunda bookhand of university type and French appearance. There is copious marginal comment in an early anglicana hand of scholastic type. This hand or a very similar one writes text on fols. 214–15, 218rv and 229v. In the lower margin of fol. 218 he writes ‘Hec Ricardus de Media Villa’.

Decoration

None; unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position.

Provenance

Probably made at Oxford and perhaps from the Franciscan convent there.

Given to the College by William Reed in 1374 (UO49. 74), although it does not include his usual inscriptions. For Reed, fellow from 1344 until at least 1357, d. 1385, see MS 8.

At the head of fol. 5 is ‘Waar’ super sententias 2º fº apertam’ and ‘18’, s. xv.

At the foot, towards the gutter, is ‘17’.

At the head of fol. 4v is ‘Liber collegii ex dono Magistri Thome Bloxham’, in the same hand as the inscriptions in MS 69, and ‘B lier. 9us’, in the usual hand (see above, MS 60). For Thomas Bloxham, fellow c. 1449–61, see MS 41.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 8, 1’ (canc.) and contents, s. xvii, and ‘N. 8. 8. Art:’ (twice), canc. and replaced with ‘I. 2. 2 (CIII)’ in red; the College bookplate.