HUGH OF ST CHER; S. XV (before 1466)
Merton College MS. 151
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
HUGH OF ST CHER; S. XV (before 1466)
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 151
Place of origin
England (?)
Date
S. XV (before 1466)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
115 leaves (ii + 113)
Hands
Written in an elegant Continental bookhand similar to that of MS 150 but angled forward. The lemmata are in larger script.
Decoration
Major decoration as MS 150 (large initials, typical English professional work of the period): fol. 1 12-line E with 3-sided border; fol. 92 (Ps. 27) 11-line D with 3-sided border; fol. 2 3-line gold B on a square purple ground, enclosing white tracery on blue, sprays into the margin. Blue initials flourished in red; red running heads on ruled lines, red underlining; unfilled spaces for smaller coloured initials.
Binding
s. xix, sewn on five bands; fols. i-ii, 112–13 are paper binding leaves.
Provenance
See MS 150. At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Ex dono H. Seuer custodis’,c. 1600.
Inside the front board is the College bookplate with ‘O. 5. 2.’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 3. 2 (CLI)’ in red. ‘2’ is inked on the foredge.
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