WILLIAM OF NOTTINGHAM; S. XIV ex. (before 1387)

Title

WILLIAM OF NOTTINGHAM; S. XIV ex. (before 1387)

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 156

Place of origin

England

Date

S. XIV ex. (before 1387)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

402 leaves (i + 401) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.

Hands

Written by a single scribe in anglicana formata. The lemmata are mostly written as the commentary, but sometimes larger, and sometimes in much larger textura. Running heads between specially ruled lines.

Decoration

On fol. 1 an 8-line D in colours and gold with coiling foliage and full border; slightly cropped by the binder and further mutilated with the excision of the top outer corner; red and blue initials, flourished and with partial borders in the colours; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs, red underlining.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands (formerly on eight); formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i and 401 were once pastedowns. On fol. i, at the middle of the foot, is the mark of a small iron chain-staple; near the foot of fol. 401v is the mark of the large iron chain-staple.

Provenance

Made in England. On fol. iiv is ‘Liber domus de Mertone in Oxonia in communi libraria eiusdem et ad usum communem sociorum studencium cathenandus. / ex legato uenerabilis uiri magistri Iohannis Bloxham quondam custodis eiusdem domus Oretis igitur pro eodem ac fidelibus animabus a purgatorio.’ Bloxham (BRUO 204) was fellow by 1361–2, warden from 1375 until his death in 1387.

On fol. iv ‘Istum librum fecit de nouo ligari M. Iohannes Burbage sacre theologie professor.’ For Burbage, fellow 1411–35, see MS 3.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with title and ‘F. 5, 1’ (canc.), s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 7. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 3. 8 (CLVI)’ in red; the College bookplate.