WILLIAM WOODFORD; S. XV
Merton College MS. 198
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
WILLIAM WOODFORD; S. XV
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 198
Place of origin
script of English appearance.
Date
s. xv in.
s. xv2
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
118 leaves (v + 112, incl. 13A) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia and spattered with red.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-iii, 110–12 are paper binding leaves, the first and last two from the same printed book as in MS 45. fol. iv was formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding.
Provenance
At the head of fol. ivv, s. xv, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxonia’.
Seen at Merton by John Bale (Appendix C, no. 16).
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘222’, s. xvii in., cropped.
On fol. iv is the title of art. 1, s. xvii, and ‘O. 8. 13. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 1. 12 (CXCVIII)’ in red.
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