HIPPOCRATES, GALEN &c; S. XIII 3/4
Merton College MS. 222
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
HIPPOCRATES, GALEN &c; S. XIII 3/4
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 222
Place of origin
France, Paris.
Date
S. XIII 3/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
202 leaves (ii + 199, incl. 31A) The edges savagely retrimmed with major loss of marginalia, and spattered with red. Two sets of early pagination, the first in pencil, often cropped, visible to 571 (mod. 82), the second in ink, 363 (mod. 1) to 385, running two digits ahead of the first.
Hands
Proficient French early gothic bookhands.
Decoration
Parisian. Initials with foliage and beasts, in colours (mainly blue and pink) and gold, often with birds terminating the extensions: fols. 2, 5, 14v, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 (2), 22, 23v, 25v, 57v, 94 (3), the first with the Crucifixion with Mary and John, the second with seated Hippocrates holding a bottle and a plant stem, 101, 109v, 115v, 125, 133v, 141, 146v, 160, 174v, 186, 197v; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; titles and running heads in capitals of the colours; red or blue paraphs; red highlighting and underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 198–9 are paper leaves from this binding, the outermost from the same printed book in MS 11.
Provenance
Made in Paris, in England early on.
At the head of f. 2 is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertonhalle in Oxon’ ex dono Magistri Iohannis Burbacche doctoris in theologia et quondam socii eiusdem domus ut inchatenetur in libraria communi ad perpetuum usum studencium ibidem.’ For John Burbage, fellow 1411–35, see MS 3.
This book was taken out of the library, with the consent of the College, on 27 Oct. 1490, for the use of John Davis, fellow (BRUO 551–2), ‘quia sibi accomodatur pro tempore lecture cuiusdam doctoris in medicinis’ (Registrum, p. 139).
At the head of f. 2 is the James no. ‘79’ (wrongly; this is MS 255), s. xvii in. ‘5’ is inked on the foredge. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 2. 5. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘No. CCXXII’ and ‘N. 3. 5’ in red; the College bookplate.
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