Merton College MS. 270
Former shelfmark: O. 3. 2
ARISTOTLE, ANIMALIBUS &c.; S. XIII ex.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
f. iirv blank.
A standard collection of Aristotle’s zoological works, here consisting of: (1) De Historia Animalium libri X, books 1–5, ed. P. Beullens & F. Bossier, AL 17/2. 1. 1, books 6–10 forthcoming in AL 17/2. 1. 2; (2) De Progressu Animalium, ed. P. De Leemans, AL 17/1 (2006); (3) De Motu Animalium, ed. P. De Leemans, AL. 17/2. 2–3 (2006); (4) De Partibus Animalium libri IV, ed. P. Rossi, forthcoming; (5) De Generatione Animalium libri V, ed. H. J. Drossaart Lulofs, AL 17/2. 5 (1966). The running heads are wrong from book 8, ending up with 16 of the actual total of 21. The text is corrected in the margins in pencil. An anglicana hand of s. xv in. annotates bks 10–11, 13–14.
Pr. Venice 1482, part ed. R. Seligsohn (Berlin, 1934).
eTK 1144KPhysical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 42 lines.
Hand(s)
Practised gothic rotunda bookhands of French appearance.
Decoration
Art. 1 opens with a 9-line initial in colours and gold with 3-sided ivy-leaf border. Art. 2 opens with a red and blue flourished initial. Art. 1 has red and blue flourished initials, red or blue initials flourished in the other colour, red or blue paraphs, red and blue running heads. Art. 2 has plain blue initials flourished in red and plain red or blue initials. Unskilful marginal drawings in pencil, s. xiv, on fols. 109v, 124.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, rebacked and resewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. f. 185 was probably a pastedown in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On f. iv, s. xiv, ‘Liber domus scolarium aule de Merton’ in Oxonia quem legauit Magister Iohannes de Osemyngtone quondam socius dicte domus ad incathenandum in libraria communi ad communem usum sociorum.’ Osmyngton (BRUO 1408) was fellow in 1312, rector of Fuggleston (Wilts), in 1333.
On fols. i and 1 is the James no. ‘89’, s. xvii. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 1. 2. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘No. CCLXX’ and ‘O. 3. 2’, in red; the College bookplate. ‘2’ 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 .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-10-01: First online publication