Merton College MS. 129
Former shelfmark: L. 1. 1
ROBERT KILWARDBY, THOMAS OF IRELAND &c.; S. XIV in. (before 1347)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. i-ii blank.
Includes items now lost from the end: 'tabula super apocalipsim | tabula super epistolas canonicas | tabula super libros Salomonis.’ See MS 197 art. 1.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i and 149 were pastedowns in a binding sewn on six bands. Near the foot of fol. 149 is the mark of the large brass chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. iiv, s. xiv, ‘Liber quondam M. Roberti de Gillynham in sacra pagina professoris et uicarii beati Petri in oriente Oxon. Legatus domui aule de Mertone ad incatenandum in librario [sic] eiusdem domus.’ Gillingham (BRUO 770) was fellow 1327–33, d. Jan. 1346.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘E. 4, 4’ (canc.) and a table of contents, s. xvii, the College bookplate pasted over.
On the board itself is ‘O. 3. 1. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 1. 1 (CXXIX)’ in red.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘41’, s. xvii in.
Merton College MS 129 – Part I (fols. 1–24v, 137–48v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. G. Haverling (München, 1995); Stegmüller, Sent. 10, 1; 743; Glorieux, Arts, 411ae; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 562.
The first two are Stegmüller, Bibl. 8729–30, reporting two German copies containing both. 8729, or a similar version, is also in MS 197 art. 1.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols (arts 1–2) and 3 cols (art. 4) of 74 lines.
Hand(s)
In a low-grade English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; plain blue or red initials; large and small red or blue paraphs.
History
Merton College MS. 129 – Part II (fols. 25–136v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Pr. Piacenza 1483 &c; R. H. and M. A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons; Studies on the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland (Toronto, 1979); Glorieux, Théol. 322x; Bloomfield 0091.
Added in a slightly later and less formal hand.
See J. de Ghellinck, 'Un catalogue des œuvres de Hugues de St-Victor', Revue néoscolastique de philosophie 20 (1913), 226–32.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols; written in c. 60 lines.
Hand(s)
In anglicana hand.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; red highlighting, underlining and line-fillers. Decoration lacks on fols. 133v-36v. At the foot of fols. 98v and 118v are pencilled ‘littere 33 | paraffi 620 | 602’ and ‘Continet 400 paraffi et x’.
History
Merton College MS 129 - endleaf (fol. 149)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A bifolium, flattened and bound in sideways, from the last quire of a copy of a work on canon law.
Physical Description
Layout
Written in 2 cols of 45 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small low-grade English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Lacking.
History
Provenance
Orig. sides A and C written on; B filled with text in an anglicana hand; D originally blank, the top half with four cautiones, s. xiv, largely obliterated by glue. The lowest two are dated 1347, the first by M. Willelmus de Fritheby in the Warwick chest, the second by the same and Hugo clericalis, Iohannes Denton and Edmund clericalis in ‘antiqua cista uniuersitatis’. ‘Et tradatur predicto M. Willelmo Fritheby’, followed by ‘Fritheby’ in slightly larger script, evidently a note of ownership. The position of these cautiones shows that they relate to the original book of which fol. 149 is the remnant, not to the rest of MS 129. None of the individuals appear in BRUO.
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
2019-06-07: First online publication