ARNOLD OF LIÈGE, GREGORY; S. XIV1
Merton College MS. 84
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
ARNOLD OF LIÈGE, GREGORY; S. XIV1
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 84
Place of origin
England
Date
S. XIV1
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
151 leaves (iv + 147) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red. fols. iii-iv and 142–3 are of thick, stiff parchment.
Decoration
Probably the same decorator throughout. On fols. 1 and 79 are red and blue initials with 1-sided borders in the colours; plain red or blue initials and paraphs.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 146–7 are paper leaves from this binding, the outermost from a copy of John Sanford, Grammar, or Introduction to the Italian Tongue (Oxford, 1605). An earlier binding had a strap from the front to a pin in the middle of the back board, and a brass chain-staple from the foredge of the front board near the foot. The outermost parchment leaves were formerly pastedowns.
Provenance
On fol. 143 a long scrape-mark may be the erasure of an inscription. At the College in 1375 or soon after. On fol. iv ‘Liber Willelmi Duraunt legatus domui scolarium de Mertone in Oxon’ et liberatus eidem domui per Iohannem Wendouere executorem eiusdem Willelmi Duraunt; orate pro utroque.’ Duraunt (BRUO 612) was fellow in 1336, warden from 1351 until his death in 1375. Wendover (BRUO 2014) was fellow in 1371, no longer in 1387. On fol. 144v are the marks of the large iron chain-staple.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘158’, s. xvii in.
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