THOMAS BUCKINGHAM, GODEFROI DE FONTAINES; S. XIV in.

Title

THOMAS BUCKINGHAM, GODEFROI DE FONTAINES; S. XIV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 143

Associated place

Oxford

Place of origin

script of French appearance.

script of English appearance.

Date

S. XIV in

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

150 leaves (ii + 148) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red. Fols. i-ii are of thick, stiff parchment. Most of the outer col. of fol. 86 is torn out. Two originally independent volumes, together by an uncertain date prior to s. xvii.

Decoration

None: unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding.

Provenance

The two volumes were at Oxford but still separate before they came to Merton s. xv med. The outermost leaves of II are darkened and dirty, showing that II was unbound for some time.

On fol. 148 are thoroughly erased cautiones. One (?s. xiv) was for M. John Lynge in the Burnell chest. Three were for William Clopton (BRUO 446), the first in 1448 and the third in 1453. He was fellow of Merton c. 1443–1452, d. by Oct. 1459.

At the head of fol. 1 are ‘14mus’ and ‘precii XX s.’ At the head of fol. 86, in the same hand, is ‘11mus’, at the foot ‘iiºfo. posuit’.

On fol. 85v are scribbles in stylus, ‘Reuerendissimi domini Ioh egisthon’, ‘Iohannis Verd ?g Guillelmus’. Near the foot are two erasures of single lines; the first can be read ‘Supplement’ M. Iohannis Scardborsch due particule de super prima sentenc’’. This is presumably John Scarborow (BRUO 1651), principal of Broadgates Hall from 1451 until at least 1453, d. by Mar. 1489.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘E. 4, 13’ (canc.), and ‘O. 3. 15 Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 1. 11 (CXLIII)’ in red; the College bookplate.