Merton College MS. 160
Former shelfmark: L. 2. 9
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ; S. XIII in.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Pars I ends on fol. 22. On the formerly blank fol. 22b, in a gothic textura of s. xv, is the proper of the mass for St Anne, beg. ‘Anna parens sullimis domine que est mater regis misericordie ...; ⟨D⟩eus qui beatam Annam diu sterilem prole uoluisti gloriosa et humano generi salutifera fecundari ...; [S]anctifica redemptor mundi presentes munera sacrificii beate precibus Anne ...; ⟨V⟩otiua celestis mense percipientes Domine sacramenta beate matris Anne gloriosa intercessione ...’. fol. 22v blank.
Capitula for Pars II, which ends on fol. 66v.
Capitula for Pars III.
CCSL cont. med. 43–43A, this copy (O), described in 43, pp. xlviii-xlix; one of ten copies, of which two are now lost. No stemma codicum is offered or discussion of the transmission. No further information is found in M. Schrader and A. Führkötter, Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen (Köln-Graz, 1956).
Fols. 128–30v blank but for unfinished circular diagrams of the winds, s. xiii, on fols. 128v and 129v, and pen-trials on 129v and 130. At the foot of fol. 1v, cropped, is ‘Qui hunc librum transcribere uoluerit rubricas in suis locis id est in capitulorum exordio diligenter conscribat nam in hoc libro breuiandi causa omissa fuerunt. Notandum etiam quasdam [ ... ]’
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with brown ink in 2 cols of 37–44 lines.
Hand(s)
German early gothic bookhands.
Decoration
Red initials, titles (mostly in the margins or between the cols), touching and occasional underlining.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fols. i and 131 are paper binding leaves. Near the foot of the last few parchment leaves is the mark of the large iron chain-staple. The last leaf was pasted down in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made in Germany, probably in the Rhineland.
On fol. 130 is twice pencilled ‘XVΘ’; reagent may have removed more.
At the College probably by c. 1500, certainly by 1556: UO65. 387.
On a sheet of paper inside the front cover are ‘F. 6, 1’ (canc.) and titles, s. xvii, and ‘O. 5. 11. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘L. 2. 9 (CLX)’ in red; the College bookplate. The title of s. xvii is also written at the head, on the turn-in. At the head of fol. 1 is ‘Liber Coll. Merton in Acc: Oxon’’, s. xvii or xviii. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.
Record Sources
Availability
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Digital Images
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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
2019-07-02: First online publication