Merton College MS. 85
Former shelfmark: B. 1. 10
HUGH OF ST VICTOR, WILLIAM DE LAVICEA, PIERRE BERSUIRE &c.; S. XIII-XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. i, ii blank. On fol. iv is a table of contents in the same hand (s. xiv) as that in MS 29, 180, 188, 277 and 314, probably John Reynham’s, including texts, now missing, which originally followed II: ‘De institucione nouiciorum | De sacramentis def | Tractatus Bradewardini de gracia | Seruius de metris | Centimetrum eiusdem | Theodorus de metris | Quedam tabula super bibliam [in another hand] Ista tabula aufertur.’ Against the title of art. 5 another hand has written ‘et est Tryvet’. Against the titles of arts 5 and 6 a different hand has written ‘Tabula doctoris Tryvet super allegorias libri Ouidii de transformatis secundum ordinem alphabeti’ and ‘Tryvet doctor sacre theologie super Ouidium in de transformatis.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding. On fol. i are the marks of two foredge straps; at the foot of fol. 160, cropped by the binder, are the marks of the large iron chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. iiv, 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 Reynham, d. 1376, see MS 18.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii. On the board itself is ‘N. 7. 5. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘B. 1. 10 (LXXXV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘5’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 85 – Part I (fols. 1–47)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
PL 175. 923–1154; Goy, p. 190. The text is distinguished from the commentary by the use of the diple in red.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 50–55 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a formal French gothic rotunda bookhand using dark ink.
Decoration
The opening initial red and blue, flourished in the colours; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; the diple in red, red highlighting and rubrication. After a while the decoration was omitted.
History
Merton College MS. 85 – Part II (fols. 48–63v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
unpr.; Stegmüller, Bibl. 1677, 1; 7708–9.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 3 cols of 67–71 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small, neat early gothic bookhand, probably French.
Decoration
On fol. 48 a red and brown initial with a long marginal extension terminating in a comic king’s head; small red or brown initials, red and paraphs, all the decoration soon ceasing.
History
Merton College MS. 85 – Part III (fols. 64–110v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
ed. A. C. Peltier, S. Bonaventurae Opera Omnia (Paris 1864–71), VIII, pp. 247–347; Distelbrink 124; Bloomfield 2301.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols, written in c. 40–5 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in anglicana of medium quality, using pale ink.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 85 – Part IV (fols. 111–24v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
unpr.; Bloomfield 0040, this copy only; but it is also in BL Roy. 15 C. xvi, fols. 1–12v. Bale, Scriptores i. 489, attributed the work (‘Ex Triuetho de transformatis. lib. i. Abbas a monacho ueneno’) to Thompson on the basis of a MS belonging to the Carmelites of Norwich.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon, written in 2 cols of c. 65–70 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in anglicana of medium quality, using pale ink.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 85 – Part V (fols. 125–54v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
pr. Paris 1509 &c, as by Thomas of Wales; Glorieux, Théol. 322v (as possibly by John of Wales); Bloomfield 0025, 2603.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols, written in c. 60 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in anglicana of medium quality, using pale ink.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 85 – Part VI (fols. 155–60v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
unpr.; Bloomfield 6450, many titles and copies.
[3 lines; WIC 680]
PL 158. 946–8, as by Anselm; attrib. Maurilius in BL Roy. 8 B. i, fol. 68v, and elsewhere, apparently correctly: Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels, pp. 480–1.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 74 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a similar hand to I.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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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