SUBJECT INDEXES TO WORKS OF THEOLOGY AND CANON LAW; S. XIV

Title

SUBJECT INDEXES TO WORKS OF THEOLOGY AND CANON LAW; S. XIV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 21

Place of origin

England

Date

S. XIV

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

173 leaves (v + 168)The edges heavily retrimmed and spattered with red.

Hands

Proficient English gothic rotunda bookhands.

Decoration

Mostly lacking; sporadic rubrication, red underlining and yellow highlighting.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked by Maltby; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii and 167–8 are modern paper blanks. At the foredge of fols. iv-v, near the foot, are the marks of another iron chain-staple. Near the foot of fol. 166 are the marks of the large iron Merton chain-staple. The same marks, but less distinct, are near the head of fol. iii, showing that this leaf has been reversed and moved from the rear of the book, where it was conjugate with fol. 166. An earlier binding had two foredge straps and clasps. fols. iv and 158 were pastedowns in an earlier binding.

Provenance

The chain-staple shows that the book was at the College before c. 1500. At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘283’ (recte178), s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘N. 2. 9. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘B. 2. 9 (XXI)’ in red. The College bookplate. ‘9’ is inked on the foredge.