HAIMO OF AUXERRE ON ISAIAH; S. XIII-XIV

Title

HAIMO OF AUXERRE ON ISAIAH; S. XIII-XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 185

Place of origin

script of English appearance.

Date

S. XIII-XIV

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

252 leaves (iv + 249) Many leaves, especially the inner leaves of quires, are smaller and irregularly shaped due to the natural edge of the skin.

Hands

A large English gothic rotunda bookhand of medium quality.

Decoration

Very little, diminishing in the course of the book: a few red initials flourished in blue, even fewer blue flourished in red; red (and a few blue) paraphs, underlining and highlighting.

Binding

s. xix, sewn on five bands. Fols. i-iii, 247–9 are modern paper blanks.

Provenance

At the foot of fol. 246v is an erased inscription ‘Iste liber pertinet domino Roberto de Exylby capellano quem emebat de Iohanne Albane de Flasby lanc’ feria tertia in ebdª Pentecostes anno regni regis H. VI xiº prec’ ii marc R. O.’ The places are in Yorkshire, the year was 1433.

At the College by 1556: UO65. 168.

Near the foot of the foredge of fol. iv is a mark probably of a brass chain-staple. At the head of fol. 1 is a title and ‘F. 3, ?4’ (canc.), s. xvii. On fol. ivv is another title and ‘O. 7. 13. Art:’, s. xvii. Inside the front board is the College bookplate with ‘O. 7. 13’, s. xix, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 1. 4 (CLXXXV)’ in red.