JOHN OF DAMASCUS, BOETHIUS, GUNDISSALINUS; S. XIV1
Merton College MS. 145
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
JOHN OF DAMASCUS, BOETHIUS, GUNDISSALINUS; S. XIV1
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 145
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV1
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
104 leaves (i + 103)The edges retrimmed, affecting running heads and marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
A single low-grade English gothic rotunda bookhand. The scribe provides running heads and corrects his work in the margins.
Decoration
None: unfilled spaces for painted initials and rubrics.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The first and last leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding, which was sewn on five bands.
Provenance
Across the head of fol. 2 is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone in Oxonia ex legato M. Iohannis Reynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus’. For Reynham, fellow 1335–58, see MS 18.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii.
On the board itself is ‘O. 4. 1. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 1. 1 (CXLV)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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