GREGORY ON JOB, PART II; S. XIV ex.

Title

GREGORY ON JOB, PART II; S. XIV ex.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 58

Date

S. XIV ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

260 leaves (iii + 257) The edges stained yellow.

Hands

The first scribe of MS 57.

Decoration

As for MS 57.

Binding

Late medieval, repaired and restored by Maltby; ‘remnants of sheepskin covering’ (Powicke) now gone; cushion-bevelled oak boards with slightly projecting foredges, now bared, rebacked with modern goatskin; resewn on seven bands. Straps (renewed) with brass clasps, pass from recesses in the front board to catches at the rear. Marks of post-medieval chaining from the foredges of both boards, near the foot of the front board, near the head of the rear. Near the foot of the rear board are the marks of the large chain-staple, on the last parchment leaf associated with verdigris. fols. i-ii, 256–7 are modern paper blanks. The first and last parchment leaves were formerly pastedowns.

Acquisition

The chain-staple shows that the book was at the College by s. xv ex. At the foot of fol. 1 is pencilled ‘hethe In hac parte sunt x quaterni’. The book is perhaps too late for this to have been William Hethe (BRUO 924), who was fellow in 1329–30, no longer in 1330–1, d. 1347. On fol. iiivare titles in hands of s. xvi and xvii, ‘N. 5. 3. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘G. 2. 3 (LVIII)’ in red. The College bookplate. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge.