HUGH OF ST CHER; S. XV (before 1466)
Merton College MS. 152
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
HUGH OF ST CHER; S. XV (before 1466)
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 152
Place of origin
England (?)
Date
S. XV (before 1466)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
313 leaves (ii + 311) The edges slightly retrimmed at the head, and stained yellow.
Hands
The hand of MS 151 (an elegant Continental bookhand similar to that of MS 150 but angled forward).
Decoration
As for MS 150 (large initials, typical English professional work of the period): fols. 3 (Ps. 52), 59v (Ps. 68), 124 (Ps. 80), 185 (Ps. 96), 239 (Ps. 109) 5–7-line initials with 3-sided borders; on fols. 1, 192v (Ps. 101) 8–9-line blue initials on a square ground of red flourishing; blue initials flourished in red; red marginal auctoritates, highlighting, and underlining of scriptural passages, running heads on or between ruled lines.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 310–11 are paper binding-leaves, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 19.
Provenance
Pasted to the foot of fol. 1 is a strip of parchment doubtless from a lost front flyleaf, with Henry Sever’s ex dono, as in MS 150.
On fol. iiv is a title, s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 3. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 3. 3 (CLII)’ in red. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge. Inside the front board is the College bookplate.
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