THOMAS AQUINAS; S. XIII-XIV
Merton College MS. 73
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THOMAS AQUINAS; S. XIII-XIV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 73
Place of origin
England, Oxford
Date
S. XIII-XIV
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
172 leaves (ii + 170)The edges heavily retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
A single English gothic rotunda bookhand influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red, with short extensions in both colours (cf. MS 107); red or blue paraphs; quaestio-numbers in the margins and as running heads in red and blue capitals.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on nine bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 169–70 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from the same book as in MS 68.
Provenance
Professionally made in Oxford. Perhaps UO47. 117, given by Thomas Staundon, ‘in libraria’, but in fact there is no evidence for the presence of the book at the College before 1600.
Inside the front cover is a title and ‘N. 6. 7. Art:’, s. xvii (both repeated on fol. iiv), the second canc. and replaced with ‘I. 2. 7 (LXXIII)’, in red; the College bookplate. At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘4’, s. xvii in. ‘7’ is inked on the foredge.
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