Merton College MS. 284
Former shelfmark: O. 1. 9
QUAESTIONES; S. XIV ex.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Stegmüller, Sent. 1209, this copy only. Each quaestio begins a new recto, leaving many blank or partly-blank versos. Marginal notes name as authors Ockham, Aquinas and Cowton.
On f. 112 is a copy of the articles condemned at Oxford in 1314 (H. Anstey, Epistolae Academicae Oxonienses, OHS 25–6, 1. 100–2).
On f. 112v is a note on the similar articles issued in 1277 by Stephen Tempier, bp. of Paris. A short theological note is at the head of f. 113.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil, written in up to 50 long lines.
Hand(s)
A single neat anglicana hand.
Decoration
None.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. The outermost parchment leaves were pastedowns in a previous binding. The parchment bifolium at the rear shows marks of a small iron chain-staple at the foredge, near the foot, and of the large iron chain-staple, near the foot. f. i has marks of an iron chain-staple at the foot near the foredge, replaced by a brass one at the foredge near the foot.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On f. ivv: ‘Liber Iohannis Bloxham ex legat’ M. Symonis Lamborne’; ‘Iste liber datur domui scolarium de Merton’ in Oxon’ ad iacendum in libraria incatenatum quamdiu durare poterit ad usum et utilitatem sociorum eiusdem domus et dabatur dicto Iohanni superius nominato per magistrum Symonum Lamburne. Oretis igitur pro utroque.’ For Bloxham, fellow by 1361–2, warden 1375–87, see MS 156. For Lambourne, fellow 1347–61, still alive in 1369, see MS 71.
On f. 19 is ‘Iohannes Tomsone’, s. xvi.
On f. ivvis also a title and the James no. ‘159’, s. xvii in., and ‘Q. 1. 16. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘O. 1. 9’ in red; the College bookplate. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a brief list of quaestiones, s. xvii, canc., and ‘O. 1. 9 (CCLXXXIV)’ in red. ‘16’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 284 - endleaf (fol. i)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
a waste leaf with the beginning of the text, the introductory letter followed by parts of bks 7–8.
The complete text pr. Padua 1476 (GW 5774), &c.; Lohr 179–80; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 715.
A short list of quaestiones, s. xv ex., quoting folio numbers.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
In an anglicana hand, much obliterated.
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
2019-10-14: First online publication