THOMAS NETTER; S. XV 2/4
Merton College MS. 319
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THOMAS NETTER; S. XV 2/4
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 319
Place of origin
England, London or Oxford
Date
S. XV 2/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
328 leaves (ii + 326)
Hands
Written in the archaizing bookhand of John Holt OCarm: fols. 194 ‘Dextrum scribentis benedicat lingua legentis Scriptum per manum fratris Iohannis Holt Carmelite’, 324v ‘Scriptus per manum fratris Iohannis Holt ordinis beate Marie genitricis Dei de monte Carmeli’. He also wrote part of Cambridge, Trinity Coll. O. 9. 33, dated c. 1424, and Merton College fragment E. 3. 5(e). He corrects in two stages: in pencil at the foot of the leaf, later erased (on f. 33 a correction is signed ‘Holt’) and in ink in the margin, hooked to the appropriate place in the main text by a red line. The later quires have ‘aur’’ or ‘corr’’ written at the beginning. His hand changes character in the last few quires, adopting for instance a Continental form ofg.
Decoration
Large and handsome initials in colours and gold with partial borders: f. 2 11-line D, the author presenting his book to the pope, the figures deliberately scraped; 3-sided border; f. 16 S mutil.; f. 41 10-line V enclosing mass celebrated in the king’s presence, in roundels heretical books being burnt, with 3-sided border; f. 194v 9-line B; f. 223 8-line C; f. 232 10-line O; f. 259 11-line C; f. 268 12-line P; f. 320 8-line U. On f. 1 a 4-line gold M on a green square ground, filled with red; gold initials flourished in blue or violet; blue initials flourished in red; the capitula have small initials of types 2 and 3, and line-fillers in red, blue and gold; running heads in red with blue initials flourished in red; red underlining and highlighting.
Binding
Modern; full scarlet goatskin, sewn on eight bands. fols. i-ii and 325–6 are modern paper blanks. At each end are marks of straps at foredge, head and tail. Near the foot of f. 1 is the mark of an iron chain-staple.
Provenance
Probably made at a Carmelite house in either London or Oxford.
Presumably UO59. 11 (in the list of Warden Thomas Harper, 12 June 1507), which had secundo folio ‘cionem’. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.
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