RICHARD SNETTISHAM; S. XV in.

Title

RICHARD SNETTISHAM; S. XV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 91

Place of origin

England, Oxford (?)

Date

S. XV in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

133 leaves (ii + 131) The head and foredge retrimmed affecting marginalia, the edges stained red.

Hands

A small, neat professional hand mixing anglicana and secretary forms, the same as MS 87 art. 1. Book- and distinctio-numbers as running heads, the latter probably not by the main scribe.

Decoration

None: unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.

Binding

s. xix, sewn on five bands, doubtless replacing one of s. xvii. ff. i and 131 are blank paper binding leaves.

Provenance

Probably made in Oxford.

On fol. iiv Scriptum fratris Roberti Cowtone super .4. libros sentenciarum abbreuiatus per manum Ricardum Sneddesham Legatus collegio de Martone halle Oxonie per Magistrum Willelmum Duffeld nuper socium eiusdem ad incathenandum infra librariam eiusdem. Duffield (BRUO 601–2) was fellow in 1398, no longer in 1422, canon of Beverley &c., d. 7 Mar. 1453. In his will (Test. Ebor. iii: Surtees Soc. 45 [1864], p. 128), Duffield also left to Merton ‘Rosa Medicine’ and ‘Petrus Iohannes super Matheum’ ‘ad incathenandum in communi libraria’ (the latter may be New Coll. 49).

Seen by John Bale at Merton (Appendix C, no. 40).

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with the College bookplate, and ‘N. 7. 11 art’ (repeated in pencil on fol. i), canc. and replaced with ‘B. 1. 14 (XCI)’ in red. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.