NICHOLAS BYARD &c.; S. XIII ex.
Merton College MS. 144
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
NICHOLAS BYARD &c.; S. XIII ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 144
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIII ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
138 leaves The edges retrimmed affecting marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
One English gothic rotunda bookhand for art. 1, another for its prefatory matter. Art. 2 is in a comparatively old-fashioned bookhand, smaller and using a thinner pen.
Decoration
Red initials, paraphs, highlighting and underlining. The work is rather rough.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The last leaf was formerly a pastedown.
Provenance
On fol. 2v ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone ex dono M. Roberti Wyght’. For Whyte, fellow c. 1424, no longer in 1433, see MS 20.
At the head of fol. 7 is the James no. ‘164’, s. xvii in., cropped.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 5, 6’ (canc.), and contents, s. xvii, ‘O. 3. 16. Art:’, canc and replaced with ‘M. 1. 12 (CXLIV)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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