DUNS SCOTUS &c.; S. XV
Merton College MS. 260
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
DUNS SCOTUS &c.; S. XV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 260
Place of origin
England
Date
S. XV 2/3
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
173 leaves (iv + 169) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia and stained red.
Hands
Several English cursive hands, not very uniform, writing a mixture of anglicana and secretary.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; red titles, marginal guides, paraphs, highlighting and underlining of lemmata.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands, formerly chained from the usual position.
Provenance
All parts made in England.
At the head of f. 1 ‘Ex emptione sociorum huius domus anno Domini M. 452’.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, ‘E. 4. 15’, and ‘P. 4. 11. Art:’, s. xvii, the last two items canc. and repeated in the same hand on f. ivv, the last replaced by ‘C. 2. 11 (CCLX)’, in red ink; the College bookplate. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.
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