THOMAS WALEYS; S. XIV ex.
Merton College MS. 196
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THOMAS WALEYS; S. XIV ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 196
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIV ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
111 leaves (iv + 107) The edges retrimmed affecting marginalia, and stained red. Fols. 37–48 (quire 4) have contemporary foliation 25–36.
Hands
Two anglicana hands, the second beginning at fol. 50 line 12.
Decoration
Red initials and paraphs.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The first and last leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding. On the early leaves are the marks of an iron chain-staple near the foot of the foredge, and of a central strap.
Provenance
At the head of fol. ivvis ‘Liber Hamundi Haydok ex empcione’. For Haydok, fellow c. 1421, still in 1432, d. 1465, see MS 16.
Lower down is ‘Li 16us’, c. 1500, showing that the book was then in a College electio.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘F. 2, 8’ (canc.), s. xvii, and ‘O. 8. 11. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘C. 1. 11 (CXVI)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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