AUGUSTINO TRIONFI; S. XV med.
Merton College MS. 141
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
AUGUSTINO TRIONFI; S. XV med.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 141
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
script of Continental appearance
Date
S. XV med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
240 leaves (iii + 236, incl. 65A) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red. fol. 236 is mostly torn out.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 237–8 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from a copy of the same printed book as in MS 78. The outermost parchment leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding, sewn on six bands.
Provenance
On fol. iiiv‘Liber Magistri Iohannis Hanham quondam socii collegii de Merton’ in Oxonia post decessum eius incathenandus in libraria predicti collegii ad communem utilitatem studencium in theologia. Oretis igitur pro eo Thoma et Henrico.’ Then ‘B lier .6us.’, in the usual hand (see above, MS 60). Followed by a table of contents, s. xv2. Hanham (BRUO 866) was fellow from 1427–8 until 1438, still alive in 1468; this book was received Dec. 1484 (Registrum, p. 57).
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘O. 3. 3. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 1. 8 (CXLI)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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