Merton College MS. 223
Former shelfmark: N. 3. 6
PETER QUESNEL; S. XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Unpr.; Schulte 2. 262; Bloomfield 5587; Sharpe, Handlist, pp. 433–4, listing sixteen copies.
The text as copied is in considerable disorder, as noted by Simon Bredon (see below), who wrote a long explanatory note at the foot of fols. 340v and 341. The order is: fols. 339v-40v (prol.), fols. 1–196 (bks 1–2), fols. 196–232 (bk. 4 and index), fols. 233–339 (bk. 3). fols. 23–4v contain text omitted from f. 22va, as signalled by the same hand, which annotates sparsely throughout.
Followed by a subject-index, ‘Abbas. Quod abbas exemptus potest prescribere capellam contra episcopum … Votum. De dispensatione in uoto sine causa rationabili ...’
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Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with faint pencil in 2 cols of c. 55 lines.
Hand(s)
Low-grade French gothic rotunda bookhands.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs; running heads in both colours.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Near the foot of f. 342 are the marks of the large iron chain-staple. Marks on f. i suggest a central strap replaced by two, on a previous binding, and perhaps an iron chain-staple at the foot. The outermost leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made in France.
On f. 340v, is ‘Liber m. Symonis Bredon’ doctoris in medicina quondam socii domus de Merton’ in Oxon’’, s. xv ex. Simon Bredon (BRUO 257–8) was fellow in 1330, still in 1341, canon of Chichester, d. 1372. This book is not among those mentioned in his will (pr. Powicke, pp. 82–6).
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with titles and ‘P. 2. 6. Art:’, s. xvii, the latter canc. and replaced with ‘N. 3. 6’ and ‘No. CCXXIII’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘6’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 222 - flyleaves (fols. i-ii, 341–2)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The text is cropped at the head, containing parts of i. 5 and 9: f. i contains part of i. 5; f. ii the end of i. 8 and beginning of i. 9; f. 341 part of ii. 4 and the beginning of ii. 5, f. 342 the beginning of ii. 11.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of at least 40 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an excellent English formal gothic quadrata bookhand
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
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 .
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-30: First online publication