Merton College MS. 157
Former shelfmark: L. 3. 5
WILLIAM OF NOTTINGHAM; S. XIV ex.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. i-iiv blank.
Unpr.; Stegmüller, Bibl. 3002; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 796.
Also found in Oxford, Magdalen Coll., lat. 160, St John’s Coll. 2, and Bodl. Libr., Laud. misc. 165: H. L. Spencer, English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Oxford, 1993), p. 372 n. 60.
fol. 361v blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 55–8 lines.
Hand(s)
A single scribe writing anglicana formata. Running heads between specially ruled lines.
Decoration
Large red and blue initials flourished in the colours and violet, with borders featuring oak leaves and grotesques; blue initials flourished in red, red initials flourished in violet; red or blue paraphs, red highlighting and underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on nine bands (though four are actually stubbed off); formerly chained from the usual position. Possibly once chained from the foot of an earlier front board. fol. 362 was formerly reversed and the rear pastedown in another, smaller book, sewn on six bands.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At the foot of fol. 2, in formal script, ‘Ex dono Iohannis Woode in theologia baccalarii quondam consocii collegii de Merton in Oxonia’.
To fol. iiv is pasted a label, doubtless originally under horn and nailed to the back cover, in the same hand: ‘Notyngham super euuangelia. Ex dono M. Iohannis Wode quondam archdiaconi Midd’’. For John Wode, fellow c. 1445–50, d. by Nov. 1475, see MS 55.
Pen-trials and scribbles of s. xvi occur in the margins passim, e.g. at the foot of fol. 189 ‘Henry the Wyte’ and ‘Thomashe Dury’.
More at the head of fol. 214 incl. ‘Iohannes Lod'.
At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘124’, s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 8. Art:’ canc. and replaced with ‘L. 3. 5 (CLVII)’ in red. Below is the College bookplate. ‘8’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 157 - flyleaf (fol. 362)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Written in 2 cols of more than 46 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Decoration lacks.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Merton College Library.
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
2019-06-21: First online publication