Ps.-GROSSETESTE &c.; S. XIV

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Title

Ps.-GROSSETESTE &c.; S. XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 310

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

S. XIV

Language

Latin

(fols.) Fols. iv-v blank. The table of contents, s. xv, on f. vv shows that after f. 60 are missing the last six books of art. 1, and ‘Epistola Lincolniensis ad magistrum Adam Rufum quod Deus est forma prima omnium creatorum’ (Epist. 1), ‘Epistola eiusdem ad comitissam Wyntonie de Iudeis non molestandis’ (Epist., 5), ‘Tractatus secundum [?Bacon smudged] de utilitate astronomie et operacione fidei’ (prob. Ps.-ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Speculum Astronomiae; Glorieux, Théol. 6dj; eTK 0975J), and from the end ‘Conclusiones textuales ... super libros de anima cum earum probaciones et mediis’.

1. (fols. 1–60v) Ps.-ROBERT GROSSETESTE Summa Philosophiae

2. (fols. 61–90v) ‘Conclusiones textuales’ on ARISTOTLE, Physics

3. (fols. 90v–6v) ‘Conclusiones textuales’ on ARISTOTLE, De Generatione et Corruptione

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

104 leaves (v + 99) All edges retrimmed and spattered red. Contemporary foliation runs 1–60, 114–49.

Hands

A single English gothic rotunda bookhand, using pale ink. Running heads between specially ruled lines.

Decoration

On f. 1 an initial P in pink, blue and gold, with full vine-leaf border, enclosing the mitred bust of Grosseteste; red and blue flourished initials with partial borders; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i and 99 are modern paper blanks, ii-iii, 97–9 paper binding leaves, s. xvii, fols. ii and 98 from the same printed book as in MS 68. On f. iv, pasted down to an earlier binding, is the mark of a brass chain-staple near the foot of the foredge; on fols. v and 1 are rust-stains in the same position.

Provenance

At the College by c. 1600; the James no. ‘16’ (wrongly) is at the head of f. vv.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with the contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 3. 12. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 10 (CCCX)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘12’ is inked on the foredge.

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