ROBERT HOLCOT ON WISDOM; S. XV in.
Merton College MS. 162
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
ROBERT HOLCOT ON WISDOM; S. XV in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 162
Date
S. XV in
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
229 leaves (i + 228)The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
One excellent anglicana formata, probably by a Continental scribe (alternating Continental and English g). The scribe is probably responsible for the foliation, running heads and marginal chapter numbers.
Decoration
On fol. 1 an 8-line D, red and blue on a ground of red flourishing and with 2-sided border in the colours; blue initials flourished in red.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked; sewn on nine bands; formerly chained from the foredge of the front board near the foot. Fols. i, 227–8 are paper binding leaves, fol. 228 from the same book as in MS 84. fol. 226, formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding, has the marks of two strap-pins, and of the large ?brass chain-staple near the foot.
Provenance
The chain-mark suggests that the book was at the College before c. 1500.
At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Holcott super librum Sapientiae’, s. xvii. ‘2’ is inked on the foredge.
Inside the front board is the College bookplate and ‘B. 3. 8’ in modern pencil.
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