WILLIAM OF AUXERRE; S. XIII ex.
Merton College MS. 109
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
WILLIAM OF AUXERRE; S. XIII ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 109
Place of origin
France
Script of English appearance
Date
c. 1300
S. XIII ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
350 leaves (iv + 346) The edges heavily retrimmed, affecting running heads, and spattered with red.
Hands
A French gothic rotunda bookhand, except for fols. 93–112 (end of bks. 2, and 4- and 3-col. tabula to the whole work), in a much smaller bookhand.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue or red initials flourished in the other colour; red or blue paraphs; running heads in capitals of the colours.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked; resewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 345–6 are modern paper blanks. On the early parchment leaves are marks of the large iron chain-staple at the head. However, these leaves are now upside down and must formerly have been at the back, where this staple was normally sited.
Provenance
Made in France, in England by s. xv; at the College before the Reformation.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘145’, s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 5, 10’ (canc.) and contents, s. xvii, and ‘O. 1. 3. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 2. 3 (CIX)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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