PIERRE BERSUIRE; S. XV
Merton College MS. 246
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
PIERRE BERSUIRE; S. XV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 246
Place of origin
script of French appearance.
Date
S. XV
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
259 leaves (ii + 257) The edges retrimmed, affecting marginalia and running heads, and lightly spattered with red.
Hands
Two expert French cursive hands: fols. 1–190v (OT), 257–8v; fols. 191–256v bastarda.
Decoration
Large and handsome blue and red flourished initials with 3-sided borders; blue initials flourished in red; red and blue paraphs.
Binding
s. xvii, speckled calf, sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the middle of the foredge of the front board and, in an earlier binding, from nearer the foot. On the back pastedown is the mark of the large iron chain-staple.
Provenance
At the head of f. iiv is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone ex dono magistri Henrici Seuer sacre pagine professoris ac custodis eiusdem incathenatus in libraria ad communem usum ibidem studere uolencium anno Domini M. CCCC lxviii.’ For Sever, warden 1455–71, see MS 6. Below is ‘B lier .15.us’, in the usual hand (see above, MS 60).
Further down is ‘P. 3. 13. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘O. 3. 8’ and ‘No. CCXLVI’ in red. Inside the front board appear a table of contents and the same shelf-mark, s. xvii, and the shelf-marks in red again; the College bookplate.
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