Merton College MS. 225
Former shelfmark: N. 3. 8
AVERROES, BERNARD DE GORDON &c.; S. XIV1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
f. i blank; on the verso is a table of contents, s. xiv.
Pr. Ferrara 1482 (GW 3107); eTK 0762D, 1171G.
On f. 75vb are the first few lines of a story ‘Ibam forte uia sacra sicut meus est mos ...’.
GILES OF CORBEIL, De Vrinis, glossed by GILBERTUS ANGLICUS
, ,Text ed. Choulant, pp. 4–18: WIC 4432; eTK 0422D; Wickersheimer, pp. 196–7; commentary eTK 1483B.
JOHN OF DAMASCUS, Aphorismi, with the commentary of Ps.-ISIDORE OF SEVILLE
, ,Text pr. Venice 1497, fols. 149v-51, &c.; eTK 0824A; comm. unpr., eTK 0777A.
Unpr..
eTK 0460JPr. Venice 1521, fols. 93v-5.
eTK 0743LPr. Venice 1521, fols. 95–7.
eTK 1344BA paragraph.
Pr. Padua 1476 (GW 3116); eTK 0273I; Diaz 1608.
f. 127rv contains a fragmentary text, perhaps from bk. 3, ‘Et fortasse est necessarium in eo prouocare uomitum cum siropo acetoso ... perueniendo ad olim decosto’. Then follows bk. 4, preceded by capitula, ‘ Febris est calor extraneus accensus ... (ends impf. in Fen 7 tract. 3 c. 16) et non factus uirtus uirulenta et non festinat ad’. The table of contents shows that bk. 5 was originally also present.
Pr. Strassburg, before 1473 (GW 3114) &c.; eTK 0705F, 0424A.
Physical Description
Collation
Hand(s)
French gothic rotunda bookhands, more or less influenced by cursive which on occasions approaches anglicana.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs. In the margins of art. 11 are drolleries in pencil and ink.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii, 252–3 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 117.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At the foot of f. 124v is pencilled ‘Iohannes Lymintone habet iiij quaterni’, s. xiv in. Perhaps John de Lemington (BRUO1130), fellow of Merton in 1328, still in 1331, still alive in 1349.
At the foot of f. 136 are two early pencilled notes, partly erased: ‘Explicit primus quaternus (?)’, and ‘quod facit pro(?)ere pro quaternio’.
On f. iiiv is ‘Liber magistri Willelmi Duffeld ex empcione’. Above is ‘Liber medicus cuius contentus superius patent. Legatus collegio de Mertonhalle Oxon’ per magistrum Willelmum Duffeld nuper socium eiusdem ad incatenandum infra librariam ibidem.’ For William Duffield, fellow in 1398, no longer in 1422, see MS 91.
Above is a table of contents, s. xiv, and ‘Liber [Willelmi de ⟨So(?)⟩uthecumbe erased]’. The place is in Devon.
‘8’ is inked on the foredge. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 2. 8. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘N. 3. 8. (CCXXV)’ in red; the College bookplate.
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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
2019-08-30: First online publication