Merton College MS. 94
Former shelfmark: I. 2. 6
ETIENNE DE BOURBON; S. XV in.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
pr. A. Lecoy de la Marche, Anecdotes historiques, Légendes et Apologues tirées du recueil d'Etienne de Bourbon (Paris, 1877), pp. 1–449; Bloomfield 4973; Kaeppeli 3633. Also in Worcester Cath. Q. 85. In Munich, Bayerisches Staatsbibl. Clm 28199 and Oxford, Oriel Coll. 68, the work is attrib. to 'R.' or 'Raymundus' OP.
Index of tituli and capitula to part 4 of art. 1
fol. 410v blank
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil in 2 cols; written in 50–60 lines.
Hand(s)
A neat anglicana hand fols. 9–368v, though deteriorating markedly from fol. 280v. A variable hand, writing a mixture of secretary and anglicana, fols. 369–410, apparently slightly later than the other. His text makes a not quite complete fit with fol. 368v.
Decoration
On fol. 9 a 5-line red and blue initial and 3-sided border; blue initials flourished with red; red or blue paraphs.
Binding
s. xix, sewn on seven bands, doubtless replacing one of s. xvii. Fols. i and 416 are blank paper binding leaves. Near the foot of fol. 415 are the marks of the large brass chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made in England.
At the head of fol. 8v are ‘B li. 18.us’ in the usual hand (see MS 69), ‘Contenta. Raymundus de 7em donis s. s. et eorum effectibus’, in a later hand ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone ex dono M. Henrici Seuer sacre pagine professoris ac custodis eiusdem incathenatus in libraria ad communem usum ibidem studere uolencium Anno Domini M. CCCC lxviii.’ For Henry Sever see MS 6. At the head of fol. 9 are ‘B li. 18.us’ again, in the same hand, ‘55’ framed, and ‘Raymundus’.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘N. 7. 14. Art’ (repeated in pencil on fol. i), s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 2. 6 (XCIV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘14’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 94 - endleaves (fols. 1–8v, 411–14)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The opening quire in the order fols. 411–12, 1–8, 413–14; ending in (Ps. 9: 8)
Allen, Richard Rolle, p. 175; IMEP, p. 52; ed. H. R. Bramley, The Psalter translated by Richard Rolle (Oxford, 1884), pp. 5–32.
Physical Description
Layout
ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 58 lines
Hand(s)
Written in an expert anglicana hand, the biblical text in slightly larger script.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured rubrics and initials.
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
2019-05-10: First online publication