GREGORY ON JOB (PART I) AND EZECHIEL; S. XIV ex.
Merton College MS. 57
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
GREGORY ON JOB (PART I) AND EZECHIEL; S. XIV ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 57
Place of origin
England (?in part)
Date
S. XIV ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
250 leaves (i + 249) The edges stained yellow.
Hands
Two similar professional scribes: (1) art. 1; (2) arts 2–3. The first writes an archaizing gothic rotunda bookhand. The second is English, writing bookhand with some anglicana letter-forms.
Decoration
Large and handsome red and blue initials, flourished in the same colours and violet, with long marginal extensions; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; red underlining of lemmata.
Binding
s. xix ex., half-bound in vellum with buckram sides; sewn on seven bands, fols. i and 249 are blank paper binding leaves. On fol. 1, near the foot of the foredge, are marks possibly of a small iron chain-staple.
Provenance
See MS 58. Inside the front board is modern ‘Merton College Library / N. 5. 3. Art.’, the second canc. and replaced with ‘G. 2. 2 (LVII)’ in red. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge.
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