WILLIAM OF MILTON; S. XIV in.

Title

WILLIAM OF MILTON; S. XIV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 154

Place of origin

scripts of English appearance.

Date

S. XIV in

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

257 leaves (iv + 253) The edges retrimmed, affecting marginalia, and spattered with red. Fols. i-ii, 253 are of thick, stiff parchment.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The outermost leaves were pasted down in an earlier binding.

Provenance

At the head of fol. 253, s. xv, ‘Liber Magistri Henrici Abyndone Postilla super ecclesiasticum Item quedam determinacio de confessione / Tradatur Mertonehalle’.

At the head of fol. iv ‘Istud librum donauit M. Henricus Abyndone custos de Mertonehalle in Oxoniam eiusdem domus scolaribus ut inchatenetur in eorum libraria nunc exhibendus cum licencia custodis et sex seniorum eiusdem domus. Et est postilla optima super ecclesiasticum cum uno subtili tractatu edito super materia de confessione et absoluende facta cum uirtute priuilegii concessi fratribus.’ Abingdon (BRUO 7–8) was warden from 1421 until his death in 1437. The book was clearly not chained for long, if at all, and became available for distribution among the Fellows (electio): on fol. ivv is ‘Li’ 10us’, c. 1500, followed by a table of contents in the same hand. This is presumably how it became available for pledging in the College’s own chest: Appendix B no. 101 (1450–1) ‘Et computat liberat’ pro renouacione caucionis Emylton’ in cista [Ci]cestrie 2º fº fundamenta vt patet per registrum ii s.’

On fol. iv‘C. M. Thome Aleyn (et Newbrygge over line) exposita in cista xxiii die mensis Februarii anno Domini MCCCCXLV et habet 2. supplementa 2º fº primi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit et iacet pro iii li. vi s. viii d.’

On fol. ii ‘Caucio magistrorum Thome Aleyn et Ricardi Newbrygge in cista Ciscestrie x. die Marcii anno Domini MCCCCXLVI et habet 3ª supplementa 2º fº primi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº 3i timentum iacet pro lxxviii s.'.

‘C. M. T. Aleyn et Ricardi Newbrig’ exposita in cista Cicestrie primo die Nouembris anno rr. H. sexti xxvii et Domini MCCCCXLVIII et habet tria supplementa 2º fº pi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº tercii timentum et ia. pro lxxviii s.’

‘C. M. W. Emyldon Iohannis Wode Thome Bloxham exposita in cista Cicestrie xviii die mensis Maii anno Domini MCCCCXLIX et habet 3ª supplementa 2º fº primi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº 3i timentum et iacet pro iii li. x s.’

‘C. M. Emyldon Iohannis Wode Thome Bloxham exposita in cista Cicestrie x. die mensis Nouembris anno Domini MCCCCL et habet tria supplementa 2º fº pi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº tercii timentum et iacet pro lxvi s.’

‘C. M. Emyldon Iohannis Wode Thome Bloxham exposita in cista Cicestrie 4. die mensis Decembris anno Domini MCCC[C]LIIII et habet tria supplementa 2º fº pi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº terciitimentum et ia. pro lxiiii s. lxii s. lx s.’

‘C. M. Willelmi Emyldon Iohannis Wood et Thome Bloxham exposita in cista Cicestrie xvii die Februarii anno Domini 1455 et habet 3ª supplementa 2º fº pi tribuit 2º fº 2i quieuit 2º fº 3i timentum et ia’ pro lviij s.’

The book with secundo folio ‘tribuit’ was presumably MS 10, part I at least. Richard Newbridge (BRUO 1353) was fellow c. 1439 until at least 1483, Thomas Aleyn (BRUO 24) by 1434 until at least 1448. For Emyldon, Wode and Bloxham, see MSS 42, 55 and 41.

At the head of fol. ivv is ‘Donauit Scholaribus de Merton Hall in Oxon’ Magister Henricus Abyndon eiusdem domus Custos’, s. xvii.

At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘65’, s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with the contents and ‘O. 5. 5. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 3. 5 (CLIV)’ in red; the College bookplate.