MARTIN OF TROPPAU, MODEL LETTERS; S. XIII, XIV
Merton College MS. 122
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
MARTIN OF TROPPAU, MODEL LETTERS; S. XIII, XIV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 122
Place of origin
Italy
England, Canterbury, St Augustine's Abbey (?)
England, Oxford (?)
Date
s. xiv med.
s. xiv in.
s. xiii.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
125 leaves (ii + 123) The edges retrimmed affecting marginalia in I, and spattered with red. The lower margins of fols. 34, 59–60, 100–1, and the lower half of fol. 97 excised.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. An earlier binding had two foredge straps.
Provenance
At the head of fol. 123v is an erased inscription, possibly a cautio.
On fol. iiv, in a large formal hand, s. xv, ‘Orate pro anima Iohannis Bohun qui istum donauit huic Collegio s. Mertone’, and ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton in Oxonia ex dono predicti Iohannis’. John Bohun (BRUO 220) was perhaps the man of that name who was monk and prior of Bury, at Gloucester College in 1429, d. by Feb. 1470.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, much corrected in a slightly later hand; the College bookplate.
On fol. i is ‘O. 2. 6. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 2. 6 (CXXII)’ in red. ‘6’ is inked on the foredge.
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