PIERRE BESUIRE, JOHN SEWARD &c.; S. XV
Merton College MS. 299
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
PIERRE BESUIRE, JOHN SEWARD &c.; S. XV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 299
Place of origin
script of Continental, probably Low Countries appearance.
Date
S. XV
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
331 leaves (ii + 329) The edges retrimmed, the feet stained yellow.
Hands
A single proficient Continental, probably Low Countries, scribe, writing a formal cursive influenced by humanistica.
Decoration
Plain blue initials.
Binding
Oxford, c. 1600, repaired: blind-stamped calf over reverse-bevelled oak boards with slightly-projecting squares, recently rebacked under the old spine cover and resewn on four bands; formerly two straps from recesses in the front board to catches at the back. The binder used Oldham rolls MW. d(10), in its damaged state after c. 1590, and HM. h(2), used c. 1590–1604. The outermost leaves were formerly pastedowns. Formerly chained from near the foot of the front board.
Provenance
At the head of f. iiv, in the usual humanistic hand (see above, MS 69), is ‘liber collegii ex dono magistri Thome Bloxham’. For Bloxham, fellow c. 1449–61, see MS 41.
On f. 328v, upside down, are ‘32’ and ‘14us liber’.
Seen at Merton by John Bale (Appendix C, no. 24).
At the head of f. 1 is the James no. ‘142’, s. xvii in. ‘1’ is inked on the foredge.
On f. iivis ‘Q. 3. 1. Art;’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 1 (299)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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