ETIENNE DE BOURBON; S. XV in.

Title

ETIENNE DE BOURBON; S. XV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 94

Place of origin

England

Script of Englishappearance

Date

c. 1400

S. XV in

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

417 leaves (i + 416) The edges heavily retrimmed and spattered with red.

Hands

A neat anglicana hand fols. 9–368v, though deteriorating markedly from fol. 280v. A variable hand, writing a mixture of secretary and anglicana, fols. 369–410, apparently slightly later than the other. His text makes a not quite complete fit with fol. 368v.

Decoration

On fol. 9 a 5-line red and blue initial and 3-sided border; blue initials flourished with red; red or blue paraphs.

Binding

s. xix, sewn on seven bands, doubtless replacing one of s. xvii. Fols. i and 416 are blank paper binding leaves. Near the foot of fol. 415 are the marks of the large brass chain-staple.

Provenance

Made in England.

At the head of fol. 8v are ‘B li. 18.us’ in the usual hand (see MS 69), ‘Contenta. Raymundus de 7em donis s. s. et eorum effectibus’, in a later hand ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone ex dono M. Henrici Seuer sacre pagine professoris ac custodis eiusdem incathenatus in libraria ad communem usum ibidem studere uolencium Anno Domini M. CCCC lxviii.’ For Henry Sever see MS 6. At the head of fol. 9 are ‘B li. 18.us’ again, in the same hand, ‘55’ framed, and ‘Raymundus’.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘N. 7. 14. Art’ (repeated in pencil on fol. i), s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 2. 6 (XCIV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘14’ is inked on the foredge.