Merton College MS. 101
Former shelfmark: I. 3. 6
SIMON BORASTON ; S. XV in.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. iv-iiiv blank; fol. i is filled with largely obliterated text, probably waste from the main book, upside down.
At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Distinctiones Boraston’, s. xvii. Chapter-numbers are given near the top outer corner of each recto.
unpr.; Stegmüller, Bibl. 7641; Kaeppeli 3589; Bloomfield 0074; Sharpe, Handlist, pp. 609–10.
Repeated as far as ‘luxuria’ on fol. 217rv. Fols. 215–16 blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil in 2 cols; written in c. 41 lines
Hand(s)
A proficient, doubtless professional, cursive of Continental appearance.
Decoration
Each alphabetical section opens with a blue initial flourished in red; otherwise red initials flourished in blue-black.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was formerly a pastedown. At the foot is the mark of a brass chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
To fol. iiivis pasted a rectangular parchment slip with holes from brass pins, obviously formerly a cover label under horn, with ‘Distincciones Boraston. Ex dono Magistri Iohannis Wode quondam archidiaconi midd’’, in textura. At the foot of fol. 2, in the same hand, is ‘Ex dono M. Iohannis Woode in theologia baccalarii quondam consocii collegii de Merton in Oxonia’. For Wode see MS 55.
On fol. 216v ‘Precium huius libri xxvi. s. viii. d.’ Beneath is ‘Liber M. Iohannis [er.]’.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘190’, s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘D. 6, 4’ (canc.) and a title, s. xvii, and ‘N. 8. 6. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘I. 3. 6. (CI)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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