RICARDUS DE POFIS; S. XIII med.
Merton College MS. 194
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
RICARDUS DE POFIS; S. XIII med.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 194
Place of origin
Italy.
Date
S. XIII med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
145 leaves of parchment prepared in the Italian manner (1–144, incl. 74a) Heavily retrimmed with loss of catchwords and marginalia, the edges spattered with red.
Hands
A single hand, writing Italian littera cancellaresca.
Decoration
Red and blue initials; red or blue initials; red or blue paraphs in the capitula.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired, rebacked and resewn on four bands (Maltby 1953); formerly chained from the usual position. Rust-marks on fols. 1 and 2 suggest a chain-staple on an earlier front board, near the foot of the foredge. The first and last leaves are stained and dirty, suggesting that the book was without covers for some time.
Provenance
Made in Italy, early on in England, presumably in the north and in the hands of someone connected with York Minster.
On fol. 1, upside down, is an early cautio, cropped and thoroughly erased, naming ‘[?]lynche’, ‘Iohannes [?]ldontone’, ‘Thomas W[?]’, clerks, and as a supplement John Chrysostom.
Given to the College by William Reed in 1374: UO49. 52. For Reed, fellow from 1344 until at least 1357, d. 1385, see MS 8.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a title of s. xvii and ‘O. 8. 9. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘C. 2. 3 (CXCIV)’ in red.
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