DUNS SCOTUS ON III SENT; 1453

Title

DUNS SCOTUS ON III SENT; 1453

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 62

Date

1453

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

261 leaves (ii + 259)The edges lightly retrimmed and stained yellow. fol. i is of thick, stiff parchment.

Hands

As for MS 59. In art. 1 the scribe writes passages of gloss in the margin in a tiny hand.

Decoration

As for MS 59. Initials with full borders on fols. 1 (the initial excised) and 123 . On fol. 25v the marginal spray of the initial has been excised.

Binding

s. xv, heavily restored by Maltby; flush, wide-bevelled oak boards now bare, rebacked with modern vellum, sewn on seven bands. Formerly two broad straps from shallow recesses at the front to catches at the back. Formerly chained from the front board, at the foredge near the foot, and from the back board, at the foredge near the head. fols. i and 259, once pastedowns, show traces of pink on the turn-ins.

Provenance

MSS 59–64 are a set, made for Richard Scarborough (see MS 17), and bought from him by Thomas Bloxham (see MS 41), who bequeathed it to the College on his death in 1473.

On fol. iiv, in the same humanistica as the indexes, ‘Orate pro anima magistri Ricardi Scardeburgh sacre theologie professoris qui istos libros fieri fecit quos postea magister Thomas Bloxham in medicinis doctor ab eodem emit et huic collegio dedit; orate igitur pro utroque’, followed by a table of contents in the same hand.

On fol. ivare ‘N. 5. 7. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘G. 3. 2 (No. LXII)’, in red; the College bookplate. ‘5’ altered to ‘4’, or vice versa, is inked on the foredge.