Merton College MS. 232
Former shelfmark: H. 2. 6
CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN ; S. XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. i and 149 are cut from the tops of two different legal documents in French, s. xv, written in French hands and concerning French persons, bound in sideways; fols. i and 149v are blank. The texts are cropped on both sides and at the foot.
CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN, Viaticum, glossed by GERARD OF BOURGES
, ,Text pr. Venice 1505 &c.; eTK 1298H; glo. eTK 0324B; the verses WIC 7108.
Following the text is a short recipe in an Italian cursive hand.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 60 gloss-lines, the text in larger script on alternate lines.
Hand(s)
An Italian or southern French gothic rotunda bookhand using pale ink.
Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials; red or blue initials, the red flourished in violet, the blue in red; red or blue initials for capitula, red or blue paraphs; running heads in red and blue capitals.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, resewn on three bands and rebacked by Maltby in 1953; formerly chained from the usual position. A rust-mark, perhaps from a chain-staple, is at the foot of the early leaves, near the foredge. A similar mark is at the middle of the foot of f. 148, but not of 149. Fols. i and 149 were pastedowns in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At the foot of f. 1 is ‘Liber medicum[sic] legatus collegio de Marton halle Oxonie per magistrum Willelmum Duffeld nuper socium eiusdem.’ At the foot of f. 2, in a similar hand, is ‘Liber Constantini qui dicitur viaticus continens sex (corr in the marg. to septem) libros cum comento magistri Geraldi Bytuniensis archidiaconi legatus collegio de Mertonhalle Oxon’ per M. Willelmum Duffeld nuper socium eiusdem.’ For Duffield, fellow in 1398, no longer in 1422, d. 1453, see MS 91.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with titles of s. xvii, ‘P. 2. 15. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 2. 6’, in red; the College bookplate. ‘15’ is inked on the foredge.
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
2019-08-30: First online publication