BOETHIUS, PRISCIAN, DONATUS &c.; S. XIII ex., XI

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Title

BOETHIUS, PRISCIAN, DONATUS &c.; S. XIII ex., XI

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 309

Place of origin

script of perhaps Norman appearance.

script of English appearance

script of Italian appearance, glossing hand of English appearance

script of English appearance.

Date

s. xiii ex.

s. xi

Language

Latin

Fols. i-iv blank. On f. ivv is a table of contents to the whole book in an anglicana hand of s. xv.

Merton College MS. 309 – Part I (fols. 1–88v)

1. (fols. 1–88v) PRISCIAN Institutiones

Incipit: Quoniam in ante expositis libris &c. In hac parte grammatice que dicitur dyasyntactica

Merton College MS. 309 – Part II (fols. 89–98v)

2. (fols. 89–94v) DONATUS Ars Maior

3. (fols. 95–8v) Ps.-PRISCIAN De Accentibus

Merton College MS. 309 – Part III (fols. 99–113v

4. (fols. 99–112) PETRUS HISPANUS (Ps.-PETRUS HELIAS) Commentary on art. 1 (Priscian's Institutiones)

f. 112v is covered with pencil notes, 113 with notes in a French cursive hand, c. 1300, apparently notes for a monastic sermon against superfluity of food and wine, ‘de operibus extra caritatem factis’, &c., including verses. More notes, in an anglicana hand of s. xiv ex., on f. 113v.

Merton College MS. 309 – Part IV (fols. 114–204)

(fols. 114v–15; 114 blank A series of notes and sententiae on the four virtues and the liberal arts, s. xi, incl.: ‘Cum in hymno trium puerorum propter interminabilem infinitatem seculorum .in. prepositio ubique semper accusatiuo iungatur ...; Quis primus inuenit logicam id est rationem? Plato ...’.

5. (fols. 115v–18v) CICERO Topica

6. (fols. 118v–21) BOETHIUS De Differentiis Topicis

7. (fols. 121–2) BOETHIUS De Differentiis Topicis

8. (fol. 122rv) De Multifaria Praedicatione Potestatis et Passibilitatis

9. (fol. 122v) Quomodo Argumentorum uel unde Colligantur Loci

Arts 6–9 are found together in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., Clm 6371 (s. x) and 6372 (s. x-xi), St Gallen, Stiftsbibl. 830 (s. xi), BnF lat. 11127 (s. x-xi) and nouv. acq. 1611 (s. x-xi), Charleville-Mézieres, Bibl. mun. 187 (s. xii), Valenciennes, Bibl. mun. 406 (388) (s. x-xi), Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibl. 2269 (s. xiii), and Chartres, Bibl. mun. 100 (92) (s. x/xi). The group was studied by Schepss, not knowing of this copy.

10. (fols. 123–201v; 202–3v blank) BOETHIUS Commentary on Cicero’s Topica

On f. 204 are two circular cosmological diagrams in ink, contemporary with the main text, and some pen-trials in a charter-hand, s. xii.

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

209 leaves (iv + 204, incl. 88A) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia, and stained red.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The outermost leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding. At the foot of f. i, and at the foredge near the foot, are the marks of iron chain-staples. Near the foot of the last few leaves are marks of the usual large iron chain-staple.

Provenance

At the College by the early 14th cent. (UO46. 54).

On f. 88Av, in faint pencil, is ‘Verba de sol Thome de ’.

At the head of f. 115v is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ de legato M. Ioh’ Reynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus’. Reynham occ. as fellow in 1321 and 1330–1.

On f. 204v ‘Hugo Herle habet librum particularem’ and ‘Iste liber emptus fuit [pro l ... florinis]’. Herley (BRUO 918) was fellow in 1409, probably still in 1414.

At the head of f. 201v is ‘Iohanni Cole’, perhaps John Cole or Cale (BRUO 339), bachelor 1495, fellow briefly in 1496.

Inside the front cover is a sheet of paper, s. xvii, with a table of contents of that date and ‘Q. 3. 11. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 9 (CCCIX)’ in red; the College bookplate.

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