Merton College MS. 147
Former shelfmark: H. 1. 4
NICHOLAS GORRAN; S. XIV med.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. iv-viv blank but for faint pencil notes on v and viv, and on fol. viv ‘Distinctiones Nicolai de Gorrham’, s. xvii.
In 4 cols, Abire-Zelus.
Unpr., very common in manuscript; Stegmüller, Bibl. 5740; Kaeppeli 3090; Bloomfield 0062.
In 4 cols, Ambulatio-Vocare.
Bloomfield 0389, this copy only, attrib. Nicholas Gorran, apparently without warrant. But the work is also in BAV, Pal. lat. 473, fols. 13v-32v (s. xiv), there called ‘De ambulatione spirituali’, and in St Pölten, Diözesanbibl. 91 (s. xv), fols. 93v-101.
fol. 180v is covered with early pencil notes.
Apparently Stegmüller, Bibl. 11733, citing only Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl. Aug. Fol. 76. 2 (s. xv), fols. 20–6.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 43 lines.
Hand(s)
A single small French gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
On fol. 1 a 5-line A in colours and gold, with curling vine-leaf foliage and 2-sided border; a ?cat sits on the upper limb (cropped by the binder); red and blue initials with 1-sided borders of the same, flourished in red and violet; red initials flourished in violet, blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs, red highlighting and underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-iii and 181–3 are paper binding-leaves, the two outermost from the same printed book as in MS 45. On the first parchment leaves are the marks of an iron chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Probably made in Paris. It is not known when it entered the College prior to s. xvii.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘F. 3, 9’ (canc.), s. xvii, and modern ‘H. 1. 4 (CXLVII)’ 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 .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-20: First online publication