JOHN DUMBLETON; S. XIV ex.
Merton College MS. 279
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
JOHN DUMBLETON; S. XIV ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 279
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
184 leaves (v + 179)
Hands
A single anglicana hand, the ink sometimes very pale.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; running heads in red and blue capitals.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. f. i, little more than a stub, was formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding sewn on four bands. At the head of f. ii is the mark of an iron chain-staple. Fols. 178–9 are paper binding leaves, from a copy of the same printed book as in MS 272.
Provenance
Given to the College by William Reed in 1374: UO49. 24, citing the secundo folio numquam luminosum, which occurs in the table on f. iv. On the mutilated f. iv are the remains of Reed’s usual descriptions and tables of contents: ‘ Oretis igitur pro utroque’; ‘ naturalibus et continent .9. partes’; ‘ de libraria’; ‘ eiusdem et ad usum o uenerabilis patris domini executoribus eiusdem ac ’. The last is the remains of William Reed’s ex dono, in the hand of his clerk Walter Roberti. For Reed, fellow from 1344 until at least 1357, d. 1385, see MS 8.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a title, s. xvii, ‘Q. 1. 11. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘O. 1. 11 (CCLXXIX)’, in red; the College bookplate. On fols. ii and 1 is the James no. ‘97’, s. xvii in.
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