ROBERT HOLCOT, ALAN OF LILLE, RICHARD FITZRALPH &c.; S. XIV ex. (part 1377)
Merton College MS. 113
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
ROBERT HOLCOT, ALAN OF LILLE, RICHARD FITZRALPH &c.; S. XIV ex. (part 1377)
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 113
Place of origin
script of English appearance
Date
S. XIV ex. (part 1377)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
240 leaves (ii + 238) The edges retrimmed with occasional loss of marginalia and stained red.
Hands
Several proficient anglicana hands of varying degrees of formality. Cade writes art. 4 in a low-grade bookhand influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red, on fol. 1 with a partial border in the colours; red or blue paraphs; underlining in red. Decoration ceases from fol. 227.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i and 238 were formerly pastedowns. At the foot of fol. 238 is the mark of the large iron chain-staple.
Provenance
On fol. i, upside down, ‘Iste liber legatur collegio de Merton Halle a magistro Iohanne Rysborw quondam socio eiusdem domus cuius anime propicietur Deus amen.’ The inscription is repeated on fol. iiv, in a hand of s. xvii. Risborough (BRUO 1577–8) was fellow in 1373, until 1397.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 5, 12’ (canc.) and a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘O. 1. 7. Art:’ canc. in pencil and replaced with ‘N. 2. 11’. Another hand writes ‘(In Coxe’s Catal. MS. Merton CXIII)’.
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