SERMONS OF AUGUSTINE; S. XV1
Merton College MS. 6
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
SERMONS OF AUGUSTINE; S. XV1
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 6
Place of origin
England
Date
S. XV1
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
280 leaves (i + 279) The edges heavily retrimmed, with loss of text at the foredge on ff. 174–85, and stained yellow. (fols. 174–186)
Hands
A single neat anglicana as far as f. 172b line 37; an informal bookhand using some cursive forms, ff. 187–278a. The additional material on ff. 172vb lines 38–52, 173, 174–86, is in at least two uncalligraphic anglicana hands, writing in alternating brief stints. One of these hands is responsible for the index on ff. 278–9 and probably for the marginal numbers and running heads.
Decoration
Plain blue initials; red tituli, paraphs and underlining.
Binding
Late medieval, repaired by Maltby; oak boards with projecting squares and wide-bevelled edges, bared and backed with modern vellum, sewn on six bands. Formerly two broad straps from recesses in the front board to catches in the back. Near the foot of the rear board are the holes from the large iron chain-staple (Pl. 39a). Formerly brass chain-staples near the head and foot of the foredge of the front board. The outermost leaves were formerly pastedowns in this binding.
Provenance
At the head of f. 4v is ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ ex dono magistri Henrici Seuer sacre pagine professoris ac custodis eiusdem incathenatus ad communem usum sociorum in libraria studere uolencium AD m.cccc.lxvi’. One of the gift of twenty-one books (Powicke, nos 943–60), made in 1466–8 by Henry Sever (BRUO 1672–3), fellow since c. 1423, warden 1456–71. The ex dono inscriptions are in the same hand as those in MSS 16, 20, 38–9, 67, 68, 111–12, 144, 189, 195–6, given by Hammond Haydok and Robert Wyght in 1468. Sever also owned Oxford, New Coll. 235.
On f. iv are ‘N. 1. 6. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 2. 6 (VI)’ in red, and the College bookplate. At the head of f. 1, in a small hand, is ‘M A 9. 12’, s. xvii, canc. ‘6’ is inked on the foredge.
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