Merton College MS. 267
Former shelfmark: E. 1. 3
WILLIAM OF MACCLESFIELD, ALAN OF LILLE &c.; S. XIII, XIV, XV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
f. irv blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. 90 and 147 were pastedowns in different earlier bindings.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
There is no evidence that the book was at the College prior to s. xvii in.
A single-line inscription has been erased from f. i: ‘Caucio s. …l liberand’ pro vi s. viii d. de … 5 ff’.
On f. 90, erased, is ‘Pignus fratris G. de Stangraue pro [cropped]’. The place is Stonegrave (Yorks., N. Riding).
At the head of f. iiv is ‘Corruptorium Sancti Thome cum multis contentis aliis prec’ xiii s. iiii d.’, s. xiv.
This is repeated, in almost the same words, at the head of f. ii, s. xv.
At the foredge of f. 91 is the mark of a single strap.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘D. 4, 14’ (canc.), s. xvii, and ‘P. 4. 18. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘C. 1. 17’ and ‘E. 1. 3’ in red, both canc. and replaced with ‘P. 1. 7’, and ‘No. 267’ in pencil; the College bookplate, sideways. ‘18’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 267 – Part I (fols. 1–90v)
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Language(s): Latin
The unique copy of the work of an English Dominican, ed. J.-P. Muller, Le Correctorium Corruptorii ‘Quaestione’. Texts anonyme du ms. Merton 267 (Studia Anselmiana 35: Rome, 1954), reviewed by D. Callus in Bulletin Thomiste, 9 (1954–6), 643–55; Kaeppeli 1578; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 784.
The rest of f. 89vb and f. 90rv are covered with faint pencil notes.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 36 lines (fols. 47–57 44 lines).
Hand(s)
Written in several anglicana hands.
Decoration
Blue initials on f. 1, otherwise initials in red or ink of text highlighted with red, red paraphs.
History
Merton College MS. 267 – Part II (fols. 91–110v)
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Language(s): Latin
Unpr.; Bloomfield 3458, here without the prologue (1674).
Unpr.; Bloomfield 4581, this copy only.
Followed by ‘Deditus usure, faciens incendia, falsus’ (6 lines, from Robert Grosseteste’s Templum Domini), and ‘Sit tibi potus aqua cibus aridus aspera uestis’ (9 lines; WIC 18341).
PL 177. 455–70.
On f. 110v verses ‘Percuciens clericum Romam petat excipiuntur’ (13 lines), notes and pen trials, including a substantial paragraph beg. ‘Consecrationes uel precationes sunt omnia uerba que fiunt iuxta uel ante consecrationem’.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 40 lines. Written above top line.
Hand(s)
In an English early gothic bookhand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials; rubrication.
History
Merton College MS. 267 – Part III (fols. 111–120v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. F. Ehrle, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur englischen Scholastik (Rome, 1978), pp. 18–44; Glorieux, Arts 411ax; Kaeppeli 3530; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 563.
The Condemnations of Robert Kilwardby, 1277, William of Auvergne, 1241, and Stephen Temper, 1277. ed. Denifle & Châtelain I, pp. 558–60, 170–2, 543–8; Glorieux, Théol. 8c.
In an anglicana of scholastic type, are two quaestiones, i. e. the twelfth of the errors condemned in art. 5, and ‘Vtrum uegetatiua et sensitiua exeant in esse per generationem’.
In a rough anglicana, cropped at the foredge. ed. T. C. Martin, Registrum Epistolarum Fratris Iohannis Peckham (3 vols, RS, 1882–5), III, pp. 921–3.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 38 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a rough English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
None.
History
Merton College MS. 267 – Part IV (fols. 121–147v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. N. Häring in AHDLMA 48 (1981), 95–226, text from 121.
CPL 1080; ed. C. W. Barlow, Martini Bracarensis Opera Omnia (New Haven, Conn, 1950), pp. 236–50; Bloomfield 4457.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil; written in c. 40 long lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small current anglicana hand.
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
2019-10-01: First online publication