Ps.-DIONYSIUS; S. XIV in.
Merton College MS. 86
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps.-DIONYSIUS; S. XIV in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 86
Date
S. XIV in
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
291 leaves (ii + 289)The edges savagely retrimmed, affecting the marginal scholia, and spattered with red.
Hands
A single expert English formal gothic rotunda bookhand, writing a larger sized script for the text.
Decoration
None; unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Binding
s. xix, sewn on five bands, presumably replacing one of s. xvii. fols. i and 289 are blank paper binding leaves. fol. 288v, formerly a pastedown (in a binding sewn on six bands), has marks of two clasps.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the College by Henry de la Wyle (d. 1329), for whom see MS 56. UO47. 245 ‘in libraria’, valued at 24 s.
On fol. ivis ‘N. 7. 6. Art’, s. xix (repeated on fol. iiv), canc. and replaced with ‘I. 2. 3 (LXXXVI)’ in red. ‘6’ is inked on the foredge.
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