GARNIER DE ROCHEFORT; S. XIII in.
Merton College MS. 200
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
GARNIER DE ROCHEFORT; S. XIII in.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 200
Place of origin
England
Date
S. XIII in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
322 leaves (ii + 320) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
A single small, highly proficient English early gothic bookhand.
Decoration
On fol. 2v is an 8-line blue initial A, with red, blue, and green penwork ornament.
Red or blue initials flourished in both colours; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour.
Plain red or blue initials and paraphs.
A pencil sketch of foliage ornament within a square frame, in the margin of fol. 43.
Binding
s. xix, replacing one of s. xvii; sewn on four bands. Fols. i, 320 are paper blanks from the previous binding. Fols. 1 and 319 were pastedowns in an earlier binding.
Provenance
Made in England. On fol. iiv ‘Orate pro anima Thome Burstal capellani qui dedit istum librum Iohanni Brokholes capellano’, continued in another hand ‘qui Iohannes dedit Henrico Gairstang et idem Henricus dedit Collegio Marton’ in Oxonia ad orandum pro anima magistri Ricardi le Schrope [nuper ebor’ archiepiscopo over line] et animabus supradictis.’ Scrope (BRUO 1659–60) was executed in 1405.
Below is ‘Equiuoca nomina theologice cum exemplis’ and ‘li 5us’, c. 1500, showing that the book was then in a College electio.
Below again is ‘O. 8. 15 Art:’, s. ?xvii. The same shelf-mark is on fol. iv. ‘15’ is inked on the foredge.
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