Merton College MS. 211
Former shelfmark: N. 2. 9
LUKE AND JOHN, GLOSSED ; S. XIII1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fol. i blank.
Stegmüller, Bibl. 620, 11829.
Stegmüller, Bibl. 624, 11830.
Copious annotation in pencil and ink, mainly to Luke, in English hands, but also in a neat Italian hand, perhaps that of Nicholaus de Velleio (see below). Chapter-numbers, in a rough later hand, as running heads in the top outer corner of each recto.
Most of the upper half of fol. 142 has been torn out; 142v blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Pricked for a written space of 230 × 210 mm. with 49 lines of gloss, divided into 5 cols., the two outermost left blank for later glossing. The actual written space is thus 155 mm., and the pricking allows for 3 and 5 different positions respectively for bounders 2 and 3. Ruled in fine pencil; the text, in larger script, on every second line. Text and gloss occupy 1–3 cols as required. Running heads are between lines ruled right across the page.
Hand(s)
A single, expert early gothic bookhand of the type usual in glossed books, probably French.
Annotations in English hands, and in a neat Italian hand, perhaps that of Nicholaus de Velleio.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for major initials; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; conspicuous red or blue paraphs with flourishing in both colours, extending into the margins with pretty leaf, fruit and daisy motifs; running heads in capitals of both colours.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The first and last leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding with wooden boards. fol. 141, glued to fol. 140v, appears to have been a pastedown, perhaps from another book. On fol. i are the marks of two foredge straps and of a brass chain-staple at the foredge near the foot. Rust-marks near the foot of fols. 140 and 142 are probably from another chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On the upper half of fol. iv are many erased or part-erased inscriptions, mostly pledge-notes: ‘Magister Nicholaus de Velleio recepit xx. solidos super librum istum in die S. Benedicti’; ‘Magister Nicholaus de Velleio recepit xx. solidos super librum istum in crastino S. Bernardi’; his name occurs in other erased notes; ‘Liber Hugonis de Stauntone emptus de Willelmo Horn’; ‘Prec’ 1 marca’. At the foot of fol. 1v is pencilled ‘Martyn Halle’ and, at the end of a long erasure, ‘M. Hugonis de Stantone’. Given or bequeathed by Hugh Staunton (BRUO 1768), fellow in 1324–5, still in 1346, still alive in 1349: UO47. 75. Nothing is otherwise known of Horne.
Redeemed by the College from the Rede chest on 7 Dec. 1493, restored to the library on 2 Aug. 1494 (Registrum, pp. 178, 184). It had been pledged by John Blackman (BRUO 194–5), fellow c. 1439–1443, d. 1495.
At the head of fol. 141, s. xv, ‘Crpxbk (cipher for Croxby?) Oxonia’.
On the mutilated fol. 142 is the remains of a ?stationer’s mark, and an erased inscription showing that it was in an electio: ‘iius de sorte Walpull et [gone]’. This was presumably John Walpole (BRUO 1968–9), fellow in 1398, still in 1416.
At the head of fol. 2 is the James no. ‘191’, s. xvii in.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a title and ‘P. 1, 8 art:’, s. xvii, ‘P. 1. 8. Art:’ again, canc. and replaced with ‘N. 2. 9 (CCXI)’ in red. The College bookplate.
Merton College MS. 211 - flyleaf (fol. 141)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
with very wide margins for glossing.
A leaf from another book, with the leaf-number 5.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 36 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an English rotunda bookhand; blue initials flourished in red; plain red or blue initials and paraphs.
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 .
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-07-31: First online publication