Merton College MS. 92

Former shelfmark: B. 1. 12

COWTON ON II-IV SENT; S. XIV in.

Language(s): Latin

fols. i, 1, 237–8v blank.

(fols. 2–236)

ROBERT COWTON, Commentary on II-IV Sent.

Incipit: Circa distinctionem primam secundi libri questione primo

Explicit: in futuro experimentaliter discere faciat, Qui ...

unpr.; Stegmüller, Sent. 732; Sharpe, Handlist, pp. 510–11, not this copy. A list of quaestiones to bk. 2 occurs on fols. 124v-5; on 125v is a long passage which is apparently an alternative text for q. 3, in a different hand and with red paraphs. fols. 198–9v blank, presumably intended for a list of the quaestiones in bk. 3. On fol. 236rv is a list of the quaestiones in bk. 4.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: (fol. 3) dicunt igitur

Form: codex

Support: Parchment

Extent: 239 leaves (i + 238)

Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 185 mm.

Dimensions (written): 240 × 130 mm.

The edges retrimmed affecting marginalia and stained yellow.

Collation

A⁴(1, 3 canc.), 1–10¹², 11⁴, 12–17¹², a bifolium, 18–20¹², 21⁶(lacks 2, 3, 6, and the outer half of 4); catchwords and leaf-numbering. The last quire is numbered XXII at the beginning.

Layout

Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 55–60 lines.

Hand(s)

A single proficient anglicana hand, using pale ink. Marginal corrections and notes of s. xiv and xv, especially in bk. 3.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs. At the foot of fol. 235v is a pencilled calculation apparently of the number of initials.

Binding

s. xix ex.; bare, chamfered oak boards with projecting squares, backed with vellum; sewn on seven bands. An earlier binding had two straps. Near the foot of fol. 238v is the mark of the large iron chain-staple.

History

Origin: S. XIV in ; England, Oxford (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Part 2 of a set with MS 93. Probably made at Oxford, at first owned by Walter Rammesbury. On fol. i^v is ‘primum supplementum’, s. xiv. On fol. 1v: an erased single-line inscription at the head: ‘Liber magistri … conuentus fratrum …’; in a formal hand of s. xv ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton in Oxon’ ex dono M. Walteri Ramesbury inceptor in theologia precentorque in ecclesia Herfordensis ac quondam prefate domus consocii’; in the same hand ‘Scriptum inceptoris Coutone super secundum tertium et 4^um sententiarum.’ For Walter Rammesbury, fellow in 1360, until at least 1381, d. by Nov. 1406, see MS 4.

Below is ‘I. 1. 1 (XCII)’ in red. ‘12’ is inked on the foredge.

Record Sources

R. M. Thomson, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer), 2009.

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Merton College Library.

Bibliography

Coxe, p. 48; Powicke, no. 600.

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

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