WILLIAM OCKHAM; S. XIV

Title

WILLIAM OCKHAM; S. XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 106

Place of origin

script of English appearance

Date

s. xiv ex.

S. XIV

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

150 leaves (v + 145) The edges heavily retrimmed affecting marginalia and running heads, and stained red

Hands

Each section in a neat small anglicana hand.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i and 145 are paper blanks added s. xix, ii-iii and 143–4 are paper binding leaves from the binding of s. xvii, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 11. On the parchment leaves at the end are marks of an iron-chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot, and of a brass chain-staple in the middle of the foot. f. 146 was once a pastedown.

Provenance

On fol. vv, in the same hand, ‘Scriptum uenerabilis inceptoris Occham super quatuor libros sentenciarum Item quodlibeta eiusdem Occham quondam socii aule de Merton in Oxon’’, and ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton Halle Oxonie ex dono magistri Willelmi Duffeld archidiaconi Clyuelandie ad inchatenandum infra librarium eiusdem domus cuius quondam erat socius Oretis igitur pro eo’. For Duffield (d. 1473), see MS 91.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 7, 8’ (canc.) and contents, s. xvii, and ‘N. 8. 11. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘G. 1. 3 (CVI)’ in red; the College bookplate.