COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS; S. XIV in.
Merton College MS. 159
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS; S. XIV in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 159
Place of origin
script of English appearance
Date
S. XIV in
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
256 leaves (iv + 251, incl. 90A) Only the head retrimmed, the edges stained red.
Hands
Several English hands, writing gothic rotunda bookhand with a few anglicana forms to fol. 78, thereafter anglicana.
Decoration
None: unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands. Fols. i and 251 are modern blank paper flyleaves. At the foot of the last parchment leaves are the marks of the large iron chain-staple. fol. ii was a pastedown in an earlier binding; the stub of the leaf once conjugate with fol. 250 is the remains of the other.
Provenance
At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone in Oxonia ex legato M. Iohannis Raynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus.’ For Reynham (d. 1376), see MS 18.
On fol. iiv ‘Istum librum fecit reparari Magister Iohannes Burbage sacre pagine professor.’ For Burbage, fellow 1411–35, see MS 3.
On fol. ivv is ‘O. 5. 10. Art.’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced by ‘L. 3. 1 (CLIX)’ in red.
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