ALBERTUS MAGNUS; S. XIII2
Merton College MS. 283
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
ALBERTUS MAGNUS; S. XIII2
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 283
Place of origin
France, south or Italy
Date
S. XIII
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
157 leaves (iv + 153) The edges retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and spattered with red. Early foliation in red, repeating 106–7, ignoring modern 107, and skipping a leaf after 132.
Hands
Very small Continental cursive hands, except for the index, which is in a bookhand of Italian appearance. The texts are much corrected by the scribes in the margins. Titles of quaestionesare given in the margin, framed, as well as rubricated in the text-space.
Decoration
Brick-red initials, titles, paraphs, running heads, foliation, highlighting and underlining. On fols. 112 and 124 are red initials flourished in blue. The index has red and blue paraphs.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 152–3 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 84. f. iii was formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding.
Provenance
Made on the Continent, probably in southern France or Italy.
At the head of f. 1, cropped, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton in Oxon’ ex legato Magistri Iohannis Raynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus cuius anime propicietur Deus Amen.’ For Reynham, fellow 1335–58, d. 1376, see MS 18.
In the lower margin of f. 151v are ‘prec’ dimidia marc’’ and ‘pro ci s.’, canc. On f. ivv‘Istum librum fecit de nouo ligari M. Ricardus Scardeburgh anno Domini 1453. Orate igitur pro eo et pro parentibus eius.’ For Scarborough, fellow c. 1449, still in 1464, see MS 41.
On f. iii is the James no. ‘114’, and the inscription of f. 1 is repeated on f. ivvin a hand of s. xvii. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘F 6, 3’, ?s. xvii, canc., a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘Q. 1. 16. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with modern ‘O. 1. 7 (CCLXXXIII)’, in red ink; the College bookplate. ‘16’ is inked on the foredge.
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