Ps.-JOHN CHRYSOSTOM; S. XIV ex., XV in.

Title

Ps.-JOHN CHRYSOSTOM; S. XIV ex., XV in.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 38

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xv in.

s. xiv ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

169 (v + 164) leaves The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia and stained red.

Hands

Several neat anglicana hands.

Decoration

I: initials are highlighted with yellow. II: on fols. 18 and 30 red and blue flourished initials with 3-sided bar borders. Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs, plain red or blue initials in table (a); underlining in red or ink of text.

Binding

s. xix, sewn on five bands; fols. i-iii and 162–4 are blank paper binding leaves. The first parchment leaves have the marks of a chain-staple near the foot of the foredge.

Provenance

Near the foot of fol. 161v is pencilled ‘liber magistri Roberti Wyght xiiii s. iiii d.’ At the head of fol. vv, mutil., is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton ex dono Magistri Roberti Wyght anno Domini Mmo. ccccº lxviiiº.’ The inscription is repeated below in a hand of s. xvii, which shows that the words now missing were ‘quondam socii eiusdem collegii’. For Whyte, see MS 20.

In the middle of the page, now very faint, is ‘li. 21us’, c. 1500, showing that the book was then part of an electio.

Near the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘117’ (recte 243), s. xvii in.

On fol. vvis a slip of parchment with a table of contents and ‘N. 3. 12. Art:’, s. xvii. Inside the front cover is the College bookplate with ‘N. 3. 12’, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 1. 2. (XXXVIII)’ in red. ‘12’ is inked on the foredge.