AURORA; S. XIII 1/4
Merton College MS. 325
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
AURORA; S. XIII 1/4
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 325
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
S. XIII 1/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
125 leaves (iii + 122) The edges heavily retrimmed and gilded.
Hands
A single proficient English early gothic bookhand.
Decoration
Many handsome 4–8 line arabesque initials, mainly on squarish grounds edged with green, in red, blue, green and pink; blue or green initials flourished in red, red initials flourished in blue; plain initials in the colours or ink of text.
Binding
s. xix in., repaired; sewn on five bands. Fols. i-ii, 121–2 are blank paper binding leaves. Rust marks on the early parchment leaves suggest that the book was once chained from the front board, at the head near the foredge.
Provenance
On f. iiiv, s. xiv in. ‘Liber Sancte Marie de Bridelington; qui eum alienauerit anathema sit’. The same hand has made additions to a table of contents s. xiii ex. ‘Biblia uersificata que dicitur aurora littera G’, s. xv: MLGB, p. 12. These entries refer to the Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Bridlington (Yorks.).
On f. 119 is ‘pertinet Richardo Baylton’, s. xvi1.
On f. iiivis ‘Liber Eduardi Welchman ecclesiae Lapworthiensis rectoris. Febr. 23. 1697/8.’ Welchman, rector of Lapworth (Warw.), fellow 1684–1739, gave it to the College.
Inside the front board is the College bookplate with ‘O. 4. 10 Art’ in pencil, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 1. 5 (CCCXXV)’ in red.
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