Merton College MS. 143
Former shelfmark: M. 1. 11
THOMAS BUCKINGHAM, GODEFROI DE FONTAINES; S. XIV in.
Contents
Fols. i-ii blank; on iiv is a title, s. xvii.
Physical Description
Collation
Decoration
None: unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The two volumes were at Oxford but still separate before they came to Merton s. xv med. The outermost leaves of II are darkened and dirty, showing that II was unbound for some time.
On fol. 148 are thoroughly erased cautiones. One (?s. xiv) was for M. John Lynge in the Burnell chest. Three were for William Clopton (BRUO 446), the first in 1448 and the third in 1453. He was fellow of Merton c. 1443–1452, d. by Oct. 1459.
At the head of fol. 1 are ‘14mus’ and ‘precii XX s.’ At the head of fol. 86, in the same hand, is ‘11mus’, at the foot ‘iiºfo. posui(t)’.
On fol. 85v are scribbles in stylus, ‘Reuerendissimi domini Ioh … egisthon’, ‘Iohannis Verd ?g Guillelmus’. Near the foot are two erasures of single lines; the first can be read ‘Supplement’ M. Iohannis S(car)dborsch due particule de … super prima sentenc’’. This is presumably John Scarborow (BRUO 1651), principal of Broadgates Hall from 1451 until at least 1453, d. by Mar. 1489.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘E. 4, 13’ (canc.), and ‘O. 3. 15 Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 1. 11 (CXLIII)’ in red; the College bookplate.
Merton College MS. 143 – Part I (fols. 1–85v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
unpr., except for the first quaestio (De Contingentia Futurorum), ed. B. R. De la Torre, Thomas Buckingham and the Contingency of Futures (Notre Dame, Ind., 1987), and by J.-F. Genest, Prédétermination et liberté créée à Oxford au XIVe siècle. Buckingham contre Bradwardine (Paris, 1992), pp. 184–290; extracts in M.-D. Chenu, ‘Les Quaestiones de Thomas de Buckingham’, in Studia Mediaevalia in Honorem R. J. Martin (Bruges, 1949), pp. 229–41; Stegmüller, Sent. 901; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 646. The only other copy is Oxford, New Coll. 134, fols. 324–438v (s. xiv2).
fol. 18v is blank; fol. 19 is a large slip sewn onto fol. 20, supplying missing text; its verso is blank, as is most of fol. 61v. In each case an early reader notes that no text is missing.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil in 2 cols.; written in c. 50–65 lines.
Hand(s)
Anglicana hands of scholastic type.
History
Merton College MS. 143 – Part II (fols. 86–148v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. M. de Wulf et al., Les Philosophes Belges V-XIV (Louvain, 1914–32); Glorieux, Théol. 198e; idem, Quodl. I, pp. 149–68, II. p. 102.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 53 lines.
Hand(s)
A single gothic rotunda bookhand, probably French.
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 .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-20: First online publication