ROBERT KILWARDBY, PETER OF SPAIN; S. XIII ex.
Merton College MS. 301
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
ROBERT KILWARDBY, PETER OF SPAIN; S. XIII ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 301
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIII ex.
Language
Latin
Middle English (1100-1500)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
240 leaves (i + 239) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
A single neat, small anglicana hand. Lemmata are written in low-grade bookhand, in larger script.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; plain red or blue initials (blue alone in art. 2); red paraphs, highlighting and underlining. A few marginal sketches and drolleries in red.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. On f. i is the mark of an iron chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot.
Provenance
It is not known when this book entered the College prior to s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with the contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 3. 3. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 3 CCCI’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge.
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