NICHOLAS TREVET, THOMAS WALEYS; S. XIV1
Merton College MS. 256B
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
NICHOLAS TREVET, THOMAS WALEYS; S. XIV1
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 256B
Place of origin
France, Paris
Date
S. XIV1
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
215 leaves (v + 210) The edges retrimmed and stained yellow.
Hands
Two French scribes, writing gothic rotunda bookhand: fols. 1–72v, 87v-206v; fols. 73–87.
Decoration
On f. 1 a red and blue flourished initial with partial border, in Parisian style; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; red highlighting, underlining, chapter-numbers and running heads.
Binding
s. xviii, full calf, rebacked. Fols. i-iii, 209–10 are paper blanks.
Provenance
Probably made in Paris.
On f. vv, in the hand of John Grandisson, bishop of Exeter 1327–69, is a table of contents, and ‘Iste liber quondam Iohannis episcopi Exon’ assignatur alicui pauperi scolari Oxon’ in theologia studenti in eius memoriam cuius erat, et eo promoto uel decedente aliis sic studentibus relinquatur in aula de Merton’ ad usum huius extunc perpetuo remansurus.’ Lower down, still apparently in his hand, ‘Tradatur J. Gardener socio dicte aule illuc deferendus’. John Gardener (BRUO742) was fellow c. 1382–92. Lent by the warden to John Hanham (BRUO 866), fellow in 1427–8, until 1438 (UO52. 60).
Alienated at an uncertain date after that, and repurchased by the College in 1878. Inside the front board is the College bookplate with ‘E. 1. 6’ and ‘CCLVIB’ in red, the first canc. and replaced with pencilled ‘P. 1. 9’.
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