BRIDGET OF SWEDEN; c. 1400
Merton College MS. 215
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
BRIDGET OF SWEDEN; c. 1400
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 215
Place of origin
England
Date
c. 1400
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
245 leaves (iv + 241) The edges savagely retrimmed, affecting marginalia, and spattered with red.
Hands
Written in a proficient bastard anglicana, except for art. 5, added in a rough gothic rotunda bookhand. The main scribe writes extensive passages in red.
Decoration
English. On fol. 1 is a 12-line S in colours and gold with full border (cf. Scott, DDEMB, pl. Ia); 6-line champe initials fols. 36v, 82, 142, 156, 196v, 212, 220; blue initials flourished in red; blue paraphs, red highlighting; running heads in red with blue paraphs.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked; sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 240–1 are modern paper binding leaves. fol. 239, formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding, has the mark of an iron chain-staple at the foot.
Provenance
Made in England; at the College by 1556: UO65. 108. ‘112’ is inked on the foredge.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 1. 12. art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘N. 1. 9’ and (CCXV)’ in red which has faded badly and been replaced in pencil; the College bookplate.
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