Merton College MS. 22
Former shelfmark: B. 2. 10
PATRISTICA ET THEOLOGICA; S. XIV1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
On fol. 1v is a table of contents, s. xiv, with annotations of ss. xv and xvi. The order is arts 1–3 (‘tamen defecit’), 7, 14–15, 8 (‘est tamen transpositus’), 9–12, 4–6.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
s. xv (doubtless commissioned by Burbage; see below), tawed skin, repaired, over cushion-bevelled wooden boards with slightly projecting squares, the remains of an overcover; sewn on four bands; plain headband; two straps from recesses in the front board to catches at the rear. The mark of a brass chain-staple on the front board near the foot of the foredge, of another on the rear board, near the top of the foredge. Near the foot of the rear board is the mark of the large brass chain-staple (Pl. 23a). On the rear pastedown and last few leaves are marks from a chain-staple of similar form but in a slightly different position, and of iron. The rear pastedown must have been free when the brass chain-staple was fitted.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. 1 is ‘m’ or ‘iii’.
Across the head of fol. 63v is a thoroughly erased inscription.
At the head of fol. 2, s. xiv ex., ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ ex legato Magistri Iohannis Raynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus cuius anime propicietur Deus amen.’ For John Reynham, see MS 18. He may have been responsible for putting the three originally separate books together.
On fol. 1v, s. xv ex., ‘Istum librum fecit reparari magister Iohannes Burbage sacre pagine professor’. For Burbage, see MS 3.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘4’ (recte271), s. xvii in. On the front pastedown is a title and ‘N. 2. 10. Art:’ (repeated on fol. 1v), s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘B. 2. 10 (XXII)’, in red. The College bookplate. ‘10’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 22 – Part I
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Preceded by the relevant extract from Retract., and Epist. 174 (‘ad Aurelium’)
CPL 329; CCSL 50, 50A (1968)
On ff. 58–60 is a long passage, to the foot of fol. 59v repeating the contents of fols. 52 to the first word of 54 (xv. 11–18, ‘hominem. De corde enim exeunt cogitaciones male ... concessum esse uera esse claruerunt’); the text on fol. 60 repeats fol. 56 col. a (xv. 25 ‘potest et in ea Trinitatem istam de qua multis modis ... experientia tam michi esse apparuit difficilis’). The whole is marked ‘uacat usque in finem’ by a later reader. It is followed by a note in the same hand ‘Quere residuum quod deficit hic in quinto folio sequente ad tale signum et ante istud signum nichil omnino deficit’, later canc. fols. 60v-3 blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Written space 265 × 170 mm. , ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 56 lines.
Hand(s)
Expert gothic rotunda bookhand, probably French.
Decoration
Books open with large red and blue flourished initials with partial borders; otherwise plain blue initials (probably intended to be flourished in red); red paraphs and running heads.
History
Merton College MS. 22 – Part II
Contents
Language(s): Latin
CPL 270; CCSL 33 (1958), pp. 1–377.
without the prol., preceded by 49 capitula
CPL 275; CCSL 44B (1980), pp. 1–113 line 7.
Actually beg. with bk. 2. PL 176. 1051–1104C.
On f. 123rv is the beginning of HUGH OF ST VICTOR, Soliloquium de Arrha Animae, ‘Loquar secreto anime mee et amica confabulacione exigam ... te amore tuo dignum existimabas’. PL 176. 951–3D.
Preceded by capitula
ed. C. Buttimer (Washington, DC, 1939); Goy, p. 21.
PL 172. 496–509D; Stegmüller, Bibl. 3574.
For item 7, fols. 137–178, see part III
ed. R. Baron, SChr 155 (1969), pp. 100–19; Goy, p. 377. At the foot of fol. 179v is ‘animus quere in tertio folio sequente.
Schneyer 5. 17; PL 95. 1505–6.
PL 159. 301–18.
PL 159. 557–80.
Arts 9–11 are 19–21 in Worcester Cath. F. 41 (s. xiv in., perhaps made at Oxford)
SAO 3. 80–1
CPL 1106; ed. S. Hellmann (Leipzig, 1909).
PL 176. 977–88; Goy, p. 425. Text is lacking due to the loss of probably two bifolia after fol. 192.
... (fol. 179v; 962C) operante tamen utrobique caritate (fol. 195) olim cum non esses ...
PL 176. 951–70; ed. K. Müller (Bonn, 1913); Goy, p. 308. At the end of the text on fol. 179v is ‘Olim Quere in folio sequente prin’’ over erasure. At the beginning of the text on fol. 195 is ‘Lege istud columpna precedente penultima ad signum †.’
Physical Description
Layout
Written space 260 × 180–95 mm. , ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 58 lines.
Hand(s)
Anglicana.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics; occasional red highlighting.
History
Merton College MS. 22 – Part III
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Schneyer 1–15 (16 gone due to the loss of a bifolium in quire 15, after fol. 153; another is gone after 155), 17–36. On fol. 178v, s. xiv, ‘vi. quaternie de exposicione Iohannis Abbeuile super epistolas dominicales et euuangelia’.
Physical Description
Layout
Written space 260 × 145 mm. , ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 36 lines.
Hand(s)
Gothic quadrata bookhand, probably French.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
History
Additional Information
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-08-01: First online publication