AQUINAS ON I SENT; c. 1300

Title

AQUINAS ON I SENT; c. 1300

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 97

Place of origin

England, Oxford

Date

c. 1300

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

117 leaves (iii + 114)The edges heavily retrimmed, affecting running heads and marginalia, and spattered with red.

Hands

A professional English gothic rotunda bookhand of university type. Copious marginal correction and annotation in early bookhands.

Decoration

Red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; red or blue paraphs; running heads in red and blue capitals.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, rebacked; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the front board, near the foot of the foredge. On fol. iii are marks of straps at head and tail, and perhaps of two at the foredge. Fols. i-ii, 113–14 are paper binding leaves, fols. i and 114 from the same printed book as in MS 78.

Provenance

Professionally made at Oxford, at first owned by Rewley Abbey. On fol. iii is an erased early note ‘Scriptum super primum sententiarum de concessum fratri Henrico de Bolingbroke ad usum ’. Next to it is ‘Liber Willelmi Durand’. On fol. iiiv ‘Iste liber est liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ ex dono M. Willelmi Durant quondam custodis eiusdem domus’, partly repeated in a hand of s. xvii. Bolingbroke (BRUO 214) was a monk at the Cistercian house of Rewley, Oxford, in 1294. For Duraunt, warden of Merton 1351–75, see MS 84.

‘2’ is inked on the foredge. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a title and ‘D. 4, 7’ (canc.), s. xvii, replaced with ‘I. 3. 2 (XCVII)’ in red; the College bookplate.