THOMAS AQUINAS &c.; S. XIII ex.
Merton College MS. 96
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THOMAS AQUINAS &c.; S. XIII ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 96
Place of origin
France, Paris
Date
S. XIII ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
274 leaves (i + 273)The edges retrimmed.
Hands
Written throughout in a single ?French gothic rotunda bookhand. Pecia marks in the margins: the last one in art. 1 on fol. 216v ‘lxiiijª’; in art. 2 fol. 267v ‘xiiii’.
Decoration
On fol. 1 is a 5-line Q in pink, blue and gold enclosing St Thomas teaching two clerks, with 3-sided border, on the lower limb a hound chases a hare; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; red or blue paraphs; red highlighting.
Binding
s. xix, reusing medieval chamfered oak boards with squares projecting a long way; formerly two broad straps from shallow recesses in the front board to clasps at the back. Marks of two small chain-staples in the front board, in the middle of the foot and near the foot of the foredge. Rebacked with modern vellum; sewn on seven bands. Rust-marks near the foot of fol. 272v are from the large iron chain-staple. On fol. i are the marks of straps at head and tail, a central one at the foredge, probably replaced by two.
Medieval boards reused.
Provenance
Made in Paris.
An inscription of two or three lines has been erased from fol. iv, but the secundo folio identifies it as having been given to the College by Roger Martival (BRUO 1232–3), chancellor of Oxford University 1293–5, bp. of Salisbury, d. 1330: UO47. 152.
On the same leaf are ‘N. 8. 1. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 3. 1 (XCVI)’ in red, and the College bookplate.
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