THOMAS AQUINAS; c. 1300
Merton College MS. 75
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THOMAS AQUINAS; c. 1300
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 75
Place of origin
England, Oxford
Date
c. 1300
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
181 leaves (ii + 178, incl. 150A)The edges heavily retrimmed affecting running heads and marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
A single English gothic rotunda bookhand of university type, at first writing rather formally. The scribe corrects his work in the margins.
Decoration
On fol. 1 is a 7-line initial in colours and gold with stylized foliage, on a squarish ground. Red or blue initials flourished in the other colours; red or blue paraphs. For a while quaestio-numbers are given in red and blue capitals in the margins. Running heads in red.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands. On fol. i, the pastedown in an earlier binding, is a small mark, perhaps of an iron chain-staple, at the foot near the foredge. On fol. 177v are the marks from the large iron chain-staple. These marks do not appear on fol. 178, which was probably inserted s. xvii.
Provenance
Made commercially in Oxford.
The chain-staple mark shows that it was at the College by s. xv ex. At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Liber Bibl: Coll: Merton’, s. xvii. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents and ‘D. 4. 6’, s. xvii, and ‘N. 6. 9. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 1. 4 (LXXV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘9’ is inked on the foredge.
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