PETRUS THOMAS, FRANCIS DE MEYRONNES; 1427

Title

PETRUS THOMAS, FRANCIS DE MEYRONNES; 1427

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 133

Place of origin

England, Oxford

Date

1427

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

271 leaves (iv + 267) Retrimmed affecting marginalia.

Hands

Art. 1 in a neat anglicana hand; art. 2 to fol. 120v (end of quire 10) in another; fols. 121–63v in the cursive of the Frisian ‘librarius’ Nicholas of Bolsward (BRUO 208). He also wrote Lincoln Coll. lat. 93, and Oriel Coll. 70 in 1429. A similar hand corrects his work heavily in the margins.

Decoration

On fol. 37 a 6-line red and blue initial with 3-sided border in the colours; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs in art. 1, red only in art. 2, ceasing after fol. 91; plain red or blue initials in the index.

Binding

s. xv, repaired s. xix: chamfered oak boards with slightly projecting foredges, bared and rebacked with brown pigskin; resewn on five bands; two broad straps from recesses in the front board to catches at the rear, the straps now gone. On the rear board and leaves at the end are the marks of the large iron chain-staple. The stub before fol. i was once (?part of) a pastedown in the same binding.

Provenance

On fol. ivv, s. xv, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ Oxon’ emptus anno Domini MCCCCXXXI quando maxime floruit scola doctoris presentis.’

At the head of fol. 267, s. xv, is ‘In isto libro continentur formalitates Petri Thome et conflatus Francisci super primum sentenciarum precium xli s. xi d.’

At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘38’, s. xvii in.

On fol. iii is a paper slip, s. xvii, with a table of contents, ‘D. 6, 10’ (canc.), and ‘O. 3. 5. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 1. 5 (CXXXIII)’ in red.