COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE; S. XIII ex.
Merton College MS. 272
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE; S. XIII ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 272
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
England, Oxford (?)
Date
s. xiii ex.
S. XIII ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
Constructed as booklets corresponding to single works or groups, nonetheless mostly if not entirely together from the first. 302 leaves (iv + 298) The edges drastically retrimmed and spattered with red. Fols. iii-iv of thick, stiff parchment.
Hands
Mostly small, neat early anglicana hands, lemmata in gothic rotunda, written larger. The script is uniform except for art. 4, in a larger hand with lemmata in gothic rotunda bookhand. Arts 1–3 are in a small rotunda bookhand influenced by anglicana. Arts 8–13 have running heads in the same hand. A single conspicuous, untidy anglicana hand annotates from art. 6 on.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red, red or blue paraphs. The decoration between fols. 62 and 244 seems to be in one hand.
Binding
Maltby 1970; Powicke described the previous binding, doubtless rightly, as s. xvii. Fols. i-ii, 300–1 are modern paper flyleaves. f. 299, from the former binding, part of an incunable (running head ‘Edi. I/II. in Por.’). At the foot of f. 298 is the mark of a brass chain-staple, and of two brass pins for straps.
Provenance
Made in England, presumably at Oxford.
In the College electio of 1408–9: UO51. 5.
On f. i, in the hand of the table of contents, ‘Istum librum reparauit Magister Rogerus Martyn. Orate igitur deuote pro isto benefactore’. Martyn (BRUO 1237) was fellow from c. 1434 until at least 1439, canon of St Paul’s, London, d. by 1462. He also gave a Missal to the College chapel for use at St Michael’s altar (MCR 3992).
Near the foot of f. 176 an inscription has been obliterated by reagent, and another erased.
On f. iiv is the James no. ‘17’ (wrongly), s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with table of contents, s. xvii; the College bookplate. An indecipherable number is inked on the foredge.
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