PETER LOMBARD ON THE PAULINE EPISTLES; c. 1200

Title

PETER LOMBARD ON THE PAULINE EPISTLES; c. 1200

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 183

Place of origin

script of French appearance.

Date

c. 1200

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

212 leaves (i + 210, incl. 25A)

Hands

Text and gloss in a single expert early gothic French bookhand.

Decoration

Handsome large decorated initials in Parisian style, in colours and gold, open each book: fol. 1, text and gloss on fols. 2, 53, 83, 104, 122v, 135v, 144v, 152, 158, 161v, 171, 176v, 179v, 180v. Otherwise plain red or blue initials; red marginal guides and running heads, lemmata in the gloss underlined in red.

Binding

Contemporary: tawed skin on flush, chamfered oak boards, an overcover of tawed skin. Sewn on four bands, slightly raised on the spine; blue and white endbands. Two cloth ties, s. xvii, replace straps from the front board to catches on the rear.

Provenance

On the front pastedown is an erased two-line inscription, s. xiv: ‘Liber ex procuracione ?magistri Philippi de Shea’.

At the College by c. 1500. On the rear board, near the foot, are the marks of the large iron chain-staple, superseded by a brass one, the first under, the second over the overcover. On the overcover at the rear is inked ‘K 20’ or ‘R 20’, and a much-rubbed title, of indeterminate date, but perhaps s. xiv. Near the foot of the foredge of the front board, on the overcover, is the mark of the usual brass chain-staple. On the front pastedown are ‘Petri Lombardi Collectanea in Epistolas Pauli’, ‘F. 15. 5’, and ‘O. 7. 11. Art:’, all s. xvii, the third canc. and replaced with ‘No. CLXXXIII’ and ‘O. 3. 6’, in red ink; the College bookplate. On the foredge is inked ‘22’, apparently corr. to ‘11’.