OCKHAM ON THE PHYSICS; S. XIV1

Title

OCKHAM ON THE PHYSICS; S. XIV1

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 293

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

S. XIV1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

153 leaves (iv + 149) The edges savagely retrimmed with loss of marginalia and spattered with red. fols. iii-iv are of thick, stiff parchment. Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals, often cropped, follows the modern until 93, after which three leaves were since lost.

Hands

Several gothic rotunda bookhands of university type, variously influenced by anglicana.

Decoration

None; unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics. Spasmodic red highlighting and underlining.

Binding

Modern, full scarlet goatskin, resewn on five bands. The remains of the previous binding, standard Merton s. xvii, formerly chained from the usual position, are kept with the book. fols. i-ii, 148–9 are modern paper blanks. fols. iii and 147 were formerly pastedowns in a binding earlier than s. xvii.

Provenance

An inscription, the first word perhaps ‘Per’, has been cropped from the head of f. 1, where also is the James no. ‘100’, s. xvii in.

At the head of f. ivvis ‘Hic liber reparatus est de nouo bonis M. Roberti Fermour. Oretis igitur pro anima eius.’ Robert Fermer (BRUO 680) was fellow in 1453, d. before May of that year.

On f. iv is a title, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 2. 9 Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘K. 1. 2 (CCXCII)’ in red; the College bookplate. ’9’ is inked on the foredge.