KORAN IN LATIN &c.; S. XIV med.
Merton College MS. 313
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
KORAN IN LATIN &c.; S. XIV med.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 313
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
164 leaves (iv + 161, omitting 45) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
A single anglicana hand.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red, red initials flourished in violet.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii and 160–1 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from the same printed books as in MS 45. f. iii was a pastedown in an earlier binding; it has the mark of a brass chain-staple near the foot. On f. 1 are the marks of two straps.
Provenance
At the head of f. 1 ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ ex legato M. Joh’ Raynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus et rectoris de Holyngbourne in Cancia’. For Reynham, fellow 1335–58, d. 1376, see MS 18.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 3. 15. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 13 (CCCXIII)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘15’ is inked on the foredge.
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