QUAESTIONES; S. XIV ex.

Title

QUAESTIONES; S. XIV ex.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 284

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

s. xiv

S. XIV ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Watermarked throughout with a fruit (type of Briquet 7353). Parchment for fols. i-iv, 112–13.

Physical extent

117 leaves (iv + 113) The edges stained yellow.

Hands

A single neat anglicana hand.

Decoration

None.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The outermost parchment leaves were pastedowns in a previous binding. The parchment bifolium at the rear shows marks of a small iron chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot, and of the large iron chain-staple, near the foot. f. i has marks of an iron chain-staple at the foot near the foredge, replaced by a brass one at the foredge near the foot.

Provenance

On f. ivv: ‘Liber Iohannis Bloxham ex legat’ M. Symonis Lamborne’; ‘Iste liber datur domui scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ ad iacendum in libraria incatenatum quamdiu durare poterit ad usum et utilitatem sociorum eiusdem domus et dabatur dicto Iohanni superius nominato per magistrum Symonum Lamburne. Oretis igitur pro utroque.’ For Bloxham, fellow by 1361–2, warden 1375–87, see MS 156. For Lambourne, fellow 1347–61, still alive in 1369, see MS 71.

On f. 19 is ‘Iohannes Tomsone’, s. xvi.

On f. ivvis also a title and the James no. ‘159’, s. xvii in., and ‘Q. 1. 16. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘O. 1. 9’ in red; the College bookplate. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a brief list of quaestiones, s. xvii, canc., and ‘O. 1. 9 (CCLXXXIV)’ in red. ‘16’ is inked on the foredge.