THOMAS AQUINAS, WILLIAM DE MARA; c. 1300

Title

THOMAS AQUINAS, WILLIAM DE MARA; c. 1300

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 76

Place of origin

England, Oxford (?)

Date

c. 1300

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

188 (iii + 185) leaves Savagely retrimmed, cropping the running heads.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The early leaves have marks of two straps, and of an iron chain-staple in the middle of the foot. On fol. 185v, once the pastedown in an earlier binding, is the mark of a brass chain-staple in the same position.

Provenance

Professionally made, probably at Oxford. Said by Alexander & Temple to be French, but all of the annotation is in anglicana hands little later than the main text. At the head of fol. iiiv is an erased inscription, ‘Liber iste est [ ... ]’. Below, s. xiv, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ ex legat’ magistri Thome de Staundon’ quondam socii domus eiusdem’. For Staundon, still alive and a fellow in 1361, see MS 74. UO47. 115, ‘in libraria’.

At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘7’, just beneath a title, s. xvii in., mostly cropped. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘D. 2, 4’ (canc.), s. xvii, ‘N. 6. 10. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 1. 5 (LXXVI)’, in red; the College bookplate.