Merton College MS. 152
Former shelfmark: M. 3. 3
HUGH OF ST CHER; S. XV (before 1466)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Apparatus of marginal notes provided by the scribe. Other notes and corrections in contemporary anglicana and secretary hands.
Pr. Basel 1504; Stegmüller, Bibl. 3675.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with fine pencil in 2 cols of 60 lines.
Hand(s)
The hand of MS 151 (an elegant Continental bookhand similar to that of MS 150 but angled forward).
Decoration
As for MS 150 (large initials, typical English professional work of the period): fols. 3 (Ps. 52), 59v (Ps. 68), 124 (Ps. 80), 185 (Ps. 96), 239 (Ps. 109) 5–7-line initials with 3-sided borders; on fols. 1, 192v (Ps. 101) 8–9-line blue initials on a square ground of red flourishing; blue initials flourished in red; red marginal auctoritates, highlighting, and underlining of scriptural passages, running heads on or between ruled lines.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 310–11 are paper binding-leaves, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 19.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Pasted to the foot of fol. 1 is a strip of parchment doubtless from a lost front flyleaf, with Henry Sever’s ex dono, as in MS 150.
On fol. iiv is a title, s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 3. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘M. 3. 3 (CLII)’ in red. ‘3’ is inked on the foredge. Inside the front board is 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
2019-06-21: First online publication