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

Title

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

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 104

Place of origin

England, Oxford

Date

S. XIV

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

153 leaves of inferior parchment (ii + 150, incl. 118A) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red. Fols. 1–3 and 146–8 are of thick, stiff parchment.

Hands

Low-grade bookhands with anglicana forms, of scholastic type, some using very pale ink: fols. 5–100v, 128v-45v; 101–121v; 122–8.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; running heads in capitals of the colours.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, rebacked and resewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 149–50 are modern paper blanks. fols. 1 and 148 were formerly pastedowns. On fol. 4 are the marks of straps at head and tail; corresponding marks do not appear on fols. 1–3. On fol. 5 are the marks of two foredge straps.

Provenance

Made at Oxford, probably by students.

At the head of fol. 148, in a difficult hand, s. xv, is ‘Lectura super sentencias Ware conuentus Oxoniarum .4. (added over the erasure of an earlier name, of which L per can be read) Helgay’. Perhaps William Hilgay (BRUO 934), Augustinian friar at the Oxford convent, ordained in 1452, appointed lector in 1485.

At the head of fol. 3v is ‘Liber collegii ex dono magistri Thome Bloxham’, in the same hand as the inscriptions in MS 102 &c. For him see MS 41.

At the head of fol. 5 is the James no. ‘44’, s. xvii in.

Inside the front board is ‘N. 8. 9. Art:’, s. xvii, canc., and a sheet of paper with ‘D. 8, 2’ (canc.) and titles, s. xvii, and ‘I. 1. 3 (CIV)’ in red; the College bookplate.