Merton College MS. 276
Former shelfmark: H. 2. 8
COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE ; S. XIV in.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. i-ii blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Hand(s)
Anglicana hands except for art. 4, similar but apparently different in each booklet.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, resewn on four bands and rebacked by Maltby, 1953; formerly chained from the usual position. The outermost leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding, which was sewn on five bands. On f. i is the mark of a brass chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot. Before the book was disordered, the rear flyleaf was f. 163, which has the marks of an iron ?chain-staple near the head, and of the large iron chain-staple near the foot.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At the head of f. 1, cropped, ‘Liber domus scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ de legato ⟨M. Ioh’ Reynham sacre pagine professoris et quondam socii eiusdem domus.⟩’ For Reynham, fellow 1335–58, see MS 18.
At the head of f. iiv ‘Hic liber reparatus est de nouo bonis M. Roberti Fermour. Oretis igitur pro anima eius.’ Robert Fermer was fellow in 1452, until his death which occurred before May 1453 (BRUO 680).
On f. 163v are written the names ‘Dudley’ (twice) and ‘Grenow’ (three times). For Thomas Grenow, d. by Sept. 1530, not a fellow of Merton, see BRUO 822.
Inside the front cover is a sheet of paper with a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘Q. 1. 8. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 2. 8’ (CCLXXVI)’, in red; the College bookplate.
Merton College MS. 276 – Part I (fols. 1–16v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Beg. as bk. 1 of Giles of Rome’s Commentary (Lohr, pp. 331–2), and refers to Algazel, Averroes, Avicenna and Grosseteste.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols, written in 48 lines.
Hand(s)
A single anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 276 – Part II (fols. 17–19v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ps.-ARISTOTLE Liber de Causis, transl. GERARD OF CREMONA, with the commentary of ADAM OF BUCKFIELD (Recension II)
Text ed. A. Pattin in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 28 (1966), 90–203, text from 134; eTK 0996A; comm. eTK 0335L, unascribed; Lohr, p. 318–19, not this copy.
f. 19rv is covered with notes in pencil. An inscription in large formal script, perhaps ending ‘omnia’, has been erased from the head of f. 19v.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 54 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a formal gothic rotunda bookhand, the lemmata in larger script.
Decoration
A red and blue flourished initial; red or blue initials flourished in the other colour, red or blue paraphs.
History
Merton College MS. 276 – Part III (fols. 20–66v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The unique copy, ed. A. P. Vella, Les premières polémiques thomistes: Robert d’Orford ... (Paris, 1968); Stegmüller, Sent. 747; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 568.
Ed. J. Hoffmans, ‘La Table des divergences et innovations doctrinales de Godefroid de Fontaines Revue néoscolastique de philosophie 36 (1934), 412–36, text from 424, from this and two other copies.
Unpr.; AL Codices, pp. 71–2.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 41 lines.
Hand(s)
A single anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 276 – Part IV (fols. 67–93v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Pr. Venice 1481, &c.; Lohr, p. 211.
On f. 93v are faint pencil notes.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 45–50 lines.
Hand(s)
A single anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for initials; lemmata underlined.
History
Merton College MS. 276 – Part V (fols. 94–164v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
STO 2. 1–458; Glorieux, Théol. 14al; Lohr, p. 165.
Unpr.; Glorieux, Théol. 312ch; eTK 1703C, . J. Leland, Collectanea, 6 vols (2nd edn., Oxford, 1775), IV, p. 60, attributed the authorship to Roger Bacon, on the authority of a copy at the College; Bale, Index, p. 102, ascribes the authorship to Walter Burley, on the authority of a copy once in Oriel College MS 12.
On f. 163 is the note of foliation, on the verso pen trials in a small hand.
f. 164rv is blank but for a few pen-trials on 164v.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil in 2 cols, written in c. 58 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics.
History
Merton College MS. 276 – Part VI (fols. 165–177v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Individual quaestiones printed and discussed by L. J. Thro, ‘A question on the plurality of forms by John Dymsdale, Oxford master of arts’, Manuscripta 32 (1988), 93–120, and M. Oyarzabal Aguinagalde, ‘Las cuestiones al libro tercero De anima de John de Tytyngsale’, AHDMLA 57 (1990), 177–269, maintaining (p. 178) that this work is not by John Dinsdale – certainly its text is different from that in Balliol Coll. 311; Sharpe, Handlist, pp. 236–7.
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols; written in c. 48 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for initials; lemmata underlined.
History
Additional Information
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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
2019-10-14: First online publication