CHRYSOSTOM ON MATTHEW AND JOHN; S. XIII1

Title

CHRYSOSTOM ON MATTHEW AND JOHN; S. XIII1

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 30

Place of origin

France (?)

Date

S. XIII1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

231 leaves (ii + 229)The edges retrimmed, affecting marginalia and running heads, and stained yellow.

Hands

A small, neat gothic rotunda bookhand, probably French.

Decoration

None; unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics. A few rubrics were supplied by the main scribe.

Binding

Maltby: bare oak boards, bevelled and with projecting squares, perhaps replacing earlier ones; the spine covered with vellum; resewn on five bands. On fol. i, formerly a pastedown, are the marks of two straps, and of a brass chain-staple near the foot of the foredge. On fol. 229 are the marks of the large iron chain-staple.

Provenance

On fol. i, largely obliterated, in the same hand of c. 1300: ‘Iste liber est magistri Ricardi de Gedding’, a table of contents, and the College ex libris, probably incorporating Gedding’s ex dono. Gedding was fellow before 1288 (BRUO 752), and donor of a number of books. This one is UO47. 236, ‘in libraria’, valued at 16 s.

On fol. 228v is a 3-line note in pencil, much obliterated, ‘Quaterni M. Willelmi de ?Say continens omelie [ ... librum ... / ... Petri ... / ...].’

At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘241’, s. xvii in. On fol. iv are a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘N. 3. 4. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 3. 4 (XXX)’ in red. On fol. iiv is the College bookplate. ‘4’ is inked on the foredge.