BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA; S. XIV ex.
Merton College MS. 146
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA; S. XIV ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 146
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
198 leaves (iii + 195) The edges heavily retrimmed, with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
Several scribes writing anglicana formata.
Decoration
On fol. 1 a red and blue initial with flourishing and 3-sided border in the colours; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs, red underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-iii and 193–5 are paper endleaves, the two outermost from the same printed book as in MS 13. On fol. 1 are marks perhaps of two straps and of an iron chain-staple near the foot of the foredge. fol. 192, once a pastedown, has near its foot the marks of the large brass chain-staple.
Provenance
The chain-staple mark suggests that the book was at Merton before the Reformation. It was certainly there by 1556 (UO65. 178).
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘192’ (recte 189), s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with title, s. xvii, ‘F. 6, 5’ (canc.), and ‘O. 4. 2. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 2. 12 [corr. to F. 2. 2]’ and ‘CXLVI)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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