ALBERTUS MAGNUS; S. XIV

Title

ALBERTUS MAGNUS; S. XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 253

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

s. xii ex.

S. XIV

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

190 leaves (v + 185) The edges retrimmed and stained red.

Hands

A single anglicana hand.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; red underlining and framing.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 184–5 are modern paper blanks. f. iii, once a pastedown in an earlier binding, shows the marks of two straps and of a brass chain-staple near the foot of the foredge.

Provenance

Near the head of f. iv, erased, is ‘Vendicio cautionis Dompni Petri de Cherletone monachi Malmesburiensis uidelicet extracta Ethicorum Aristotelis de exposita est in cista Roubery die Iouis [corr. to Mercurii] proxima festum sancti Fidis anno Domini M. CCCC XLVIII pro x. s. ut patet eadem manu incipit fo. secundo interrogandum’.

Pen-trials of s. xv on f. 183v include ‘Wynton’, three times, as well as ‘ii d prec’ i q.’

On f. vv, s. xv, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertonhalle in Oxon’ ex dono magistri Iohannis Burbache doctoris in theologia et quondam socii eiusdem domus ut inchatenetur in libraria communi ad perpetuum usum studencium ibidem’. For Burbage, fellow 1411–35, see MS 3.

At the head of f. 1 is the James no. ‘124’ (wrongly), s. xvii in. Inside the front cover is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 4. 4. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘C. 2. 4 (CCLIII)’ in red; the College bookplate.