SUBJECT INDEXES TO WORKS OF THEOLOGY AND CANON LAW; S. XIV in.

Title

SUBJECT INDEXES TO WORKS OF THEOLOGY AND CANON LAW; S. XIV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 17

Place of origin

England, Oxford (?)

Date

S. XIV in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

162 leaves (iv + 158)The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.

Hands

A single proficient English gothic rotunda bookhand with anglicana forms.

Decoration

Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue initials and paraphs; underlining in red.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, rebacked and repaired by Maltby; sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 157–8 are modern blank paper binding leaves. fols. iii-iv and 155–6 are of thick, stiff parchment; iii and 156 were once pastedowns.

Provenance

Probably made commercially at Oxford for its earliest named owner. On fol. ivv, s. xiv, ‘Liber quondam M. Ro’, and, in the same hand, ‘Liber quondam M. Roberti de Gillyngham in sacra pagina professoris et uicarii beati Petri in oriente Oxon’. Legatus domui aule de Mertone ad incathenandum in librario eiusdem domus.’ s. xv, ‘Istum librum de nouo ligari fecit Magister Ricardus Scardeburghe anno domini MCCCCLIII. Oretis igitur pro eo et pro parentibus eius’. Gillingham (BRUO 770) was admitted as vicar on the presentation of Merton College 13 May 1338, d. by Jan. 1346. Scarborough (BRUO 1651–2) was fellow c. 1449-at least 1464, d. by Oct. 1472. At the head of fol. 2 is the James no. ‘183’, s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with table of contents, s. xvii, and the College bookplate. On the board itself is ‘N. 2. 5 Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘B. 2. 5 (XVII)’ in red.