Merton College MS. 140
Former shelfmark: M. 1. 2
VARIA; S. XIII, XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Five originally independent volumes or fragments, together by an indeterminate date before s. xvii.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. 198 was a pastedown in an earlier binding. fol. i was the rear pastedown, or else the front pastedown in reverse position to the present, in a binding sewn on four bands. It has traces of a brass chain-staple on a piece of parchment pasted to the verso, near the top of the foredge, and possible traces of straps at head and tail, two more at the foredge. fol. 198 has the mark of a central strap or clasp, corresponding to a mark on fol. 1 (there is no corresponding mark on fol. i). Near the foot of fol. 1 are rust-marks of irregular pattern, perhaps from the large iron chain-staple. fol. ii is a paper binding leaf, s. xvii.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. i, upside down: ‘Hunc librum M. Willelmus Reed habuit ex accomodacione magistri Willelmi Lynham in quaternis pro quibusdam libellis quos dictus M. W. Lynham habuit ex accomodacione M. W. Reed predicto’; ‘Liber domus scolarium Mertone Oxon’ ex assignacione magistrorum Willelmi Lynham et Willelmi Reed episcopi Cicestrensis quondam sociorum domus eiusdem. Oretis igitur pro utroque.’ For William Reed, fellow from 1344 until at least 1357, d. 1385, see MS 8. William Lynham (BRUO 1193) was fellow in 1330, until 1349, d. by July 1361. But it is not certain that these inscriptions apply to this book, since fol. i shows signs of having belonged elsewhere.
An erased cautio at the foot of fol. 11v: ‘Caucio magistri Iohannis de Gl[ ... die ... festum / anno Domini M CCCC XXX VIII ...]’. I at least was distributed in the electio of 1519 (UO63. 3).
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘109’ (wrongly, for that is MS 145), s. xvii in.
On fol. iiv is a table of contents and ‘O. 3. 12. Art:’, s. xvii.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii, and ‘O. 3. 12. Art:’ again, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 1. 2 (CXL)’ in red; the College bookplate.
‘12’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 140 - endleaf (fol. i)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Bound in sideways, written in 2 cols, with loss of text from the head and much of the outer cols: written space more than 185 × c. 160 mm.; more than long 46 lines.
Hand(s)
A debased English rotunda gothic bookhand.
Decoration
Space for a coloured initial; a rubric and red highlighting.
History
Merton College MS. 140 – Part I (fols. 1–11v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
ed. A. Pattin in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 28 (1966), 90–203, text from 134.
eTK 0996A (text) eTK 0335L (‘commentary’). The ‘commentary’, variously ascribed in the MSS, is in fact a set of demonstrations added by the compiler of the main text; Pattin integrates the two.Ars Fidei Catholicae and Potentia est uis, as one work.
Ed. M. Dreyer, BGPTM, Neue Folge 37 (1993), pp. 76–120, this copy at p. 52; the Ars only Glorieux, Théol. 107a; Bloomfield 0831. For other copies of the two works as one, see Dreyer, pp. 58–62.
PL 40. 779–803.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 63 lines, in arts 1–2 with blocks of text and comment alternating, the text in larger script on every second line.
Hand(s)
Written in a small neat English or French early gothic bookhand.
Decoration
A blue and red flourished initial; blue initials, plain or flourished in red; red paraphs.
History
Merton College MS. 140 – Part II (fols. 12–102v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. E. M. Buytaert (St Bonaventure, NY, 1955).
The running head is ‘Liber Prosperi extracte a libris Augustini’. CPL 525; CCSL 68A (1972), pp. 257–365.
Ed. J. Ribaillier, Richard de Saint-Victor. Opuscules théologiques (Paris, 1967), pp. 77–110; Stegmüller, Bibl. 7340.
Ed. Ribaillier, pp. 121–9.
Ed. Ribaillier, pp. 142–54; Stegmüller, Bibl. 7340. 1.
Ed. R. M. Spiazzi, S. Thomae Aquinatis opuscula theologica (Rome 1954), pp. 193–217; Glorieux, Rép.. 14da.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 39 lines; running heads between separately-ruled lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Arts 4–5 blue or red initials, plain, or highlighted or modestly flourished in the other colour; red titles and running heads; arts 6–9 brick-red initials, underlining and highlighting.
History
Merton College MS. 140 – Part III (fols. 103–130v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. J. Ribaillier (Paris, 1958).
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 43–9 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a hand similar to I, but definitely French.
Decoration
A blue initial flourished in red; red initials and titles.
History
Merton College MS. 140 – Part IV (fols. 131–202v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
ed. J. Châtillon (Paris, 1958); Stegmüller, Bibl. 7317.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 51 lines.
Hand(s)
A French gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
The same brick-red initials, underlining and highlighting as part II.
History
Merton College MS. 140 – Part V (fols. 179–202)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Largely unpr., but the commentary on x. 29-xxii. 30 was used to continue the commentary by Thomas of Wales, never completed by its author, in the printed edns. of that work; Kaeppeli 3136; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 397.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with fine pencil in 2 cols of 62 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a hand similar to part II (Englsih gothic rotunda bookhand).
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red, red or blue paraphs and running heads.
History
Additional Information
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Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-18: First online publication