Merton College MS. 255
Former shelfmark: C. 2. 6
ARTICELLA, CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN; S. XIII1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
f. iii blank; on the verso is a table of contents, s. xv.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on three bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-ii and 92–3 are paper binding leaves. f. 91, formerly a pastedown in an earlier binding, has the mark of a brass chain-staple at the foot.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At least partly made in England, and there soon after manufacture, owned by a physician practising in the area of Gloucestershire and Somerset.
On f. iiiv‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertonhalle in Oxonia ex dono M. Willelmi Duffeld nuper socii eiusdem’, s. xv, repeated in a hand of s. xvii. For Duffield, fellow in 1398, no longer in 1422, d. 1453, see MS 91.
‘6’ is inked on the foredge. On f. i is a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘P. 4. 6. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘C. 2. 6 (CCLV)’ in red. Inside the front board is the College bookplate.
Merton College MS. 253 – Part I (fols. 1–66v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. D. Garcia and J. L. Vidal, Asclepio 26–7 (1974–5), 267–382; eTK 0856F, 1352I.
Pr. as part of the Articella, Venice 1487.
eTK 1585Itransl. CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN
Pr. in Galen’s Opera, III, Venice 1528; eTK 1704G, ; this copy Hippocrates Latinus 56.
transl. CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN or GERARD OF CREMONA
Pr. as part of the Articella, Padua 1476 &c.; eTK 1002B, ; Hippocrates Latinus 210.
Pr. Venice 1483 &c..
eTK 0764KPr. as part of the Articella, Padua 1476 &c.; eTK 0393L.
Heavily glossed in a tiny early note-hand similar to that found in MS 219.
Medical notes in the same hand, and prescriptions, and records of payments, mostly in pencil, sometimes in French, with names of persons and places: Adam garcio, Walterus clericus, Walterus paruus, Willelmus garcio, Iohannes de Tirnleyn, Petrus de Bristoll, apud Duneford (Doniford, Som.), apud Cirencestr’ (Cirencester, Glo.), Iohannes de Welwe (Wellow, Som.), the abbot of Malmesbury, Ricardus de Schrewham, Walterus de Sthrincham (?Strensham, Worcs.), the abbot of Kingeswd (Kingswood, Glo.), Petrus de Asserigge (Ashridge., Bucks.), Rogerus Lillebon, Rogerus de Bampton (Bampton, Oxon.), Iohannes Hynne scripcit litteram, Walterus de Witchartte. On f. 71 is a pencilled draft letter on behalf of Master Thomas de Bonauilla rector of Doniford addressed to R. bishop of Exeter (Richard Blund, 1245–57) and R(ichard) earl of Cornwall, confirming that the rector has been unable to perform his duties due to illness.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 30 lines.
Hand(s)
A proficient English early gothic bookhand.
Decoration
Red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; works open with a line of large ornamental script in the colours; red or blue paraphs; red line-fillers.
History
Merton College MS. 253 – Part II (fols. 72r-91v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Medical notes on f. 87rv, s. xiii, some at least by the annotator of I; 88–91v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 38 long lines.
Hand(s)
A proficient early gothic bookhand, perhaps French.
Decoration
Red and blue initials flourished in the colours and yellow; red or blue initials plain or with a little ornament in the other colour.
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
2019-10-01: First online publication