Merton College MS. 295
Former shelfmark: K. 1. 5
BURLEY, GROSSETESTE; c. 1200, XIV in.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
ff. iv-v blank; a table of contents and ‘5’, s. xvii, on f. vv.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, repaired and rebacked by Maltby; sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. Fols. i-iii, 149–51 are paper binding leaves, fols. iii and 149 modern, the rest of s. xvii, the outermost from the same printed book as in MS 118. The outermost parchment leaves were pastedowns in an earlier binding. Near the foot of f. 147 are the marks of the large iron chain-staple. There are more such marks on f. 1 but not on fols. iv-v, and again on f. 136v. Near the foot of the foredge of f. iv is the mark of a brass chain-staple.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Near the foot of f. 120v, erased, is ‘Supplementum Iohannis’, s. xiv, and some erased words in pencil, possibly a price. The second line appears to read ‘f ii iii s.’
Given to the College by William Reed in 1374: UO49. 16. At the foot of f. 1, autograph, ‘Liber M. Willelmi Reed ex empcione de bonis sibi datis per M. Nicholaum de Sandwyc. Expositio m. Walteri Burley super 7 libros Topicorum Aristotelis.’ At the foot of f. 93 ‘Liber Magistri Willelmi episcopi Cicestrie quem emit a domino Thoma Tryllek’ episcopo Roffensi. Oretis igitur pro utroque.’ For William Reed, fellow from 1344 until at least 1357, d. 1385, see MS 8.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘E. 4. 13’ (canc.) and a table of contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 2. 11. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘K. 1. 5 (CCXCV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 295 – Part I (fols. 1–92v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Each book is followed by a list of quaestiones.
Unpr.; Lohr, p. 178; Sharpe, Handlist, pp. 713–14, one of four copies.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 49 lines
Hand(s)
Written in English gothic rotunda bookhands more or less heavily influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
Rather rough red initials, paraphs, highlighting, and underlining of lemmata.
History
Merton College MS. 295 – Part II (fols. 93–120v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. P. Rossi (Florence, 1981); Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 84; Lohr, pp. 103–4; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 542.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 58 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in English gothic rotunda bookhands more or less heavily influenced by anglicana.
Decoration
Rather rough red initials, paraphs, highlighting, and underlining of lemmata.
History
Merton College MS. 295 – Part III (fols. 121–32v, 137–148v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
There is no loss of text between fols. 132v and 137.
Ed. R. C. Dales (Boulder, CO, 1963); Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 82; Lohr, p. 104; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 543.
Ed. J. Baur, BGPTM 9 (1912), pp. 126–9; Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 112, one of three copies.
Ed. Baur, pp. 51–9; Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 108; Lindberg, no. 85D.
Followed by a short note, s. xv, ‘Nota quod aliquid dici magis notum alio potest tripliciter intelligi ...’, and pen-trials and doodles.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 50 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in English gothic rotunda bookhands more or less heavily influenced by anglicana. The scribe of part III was certainly professional; the others are less good.
Decoration
Rather rough red initials, paraphs, highlighting, and underlining of lemmata.
History
Merton College MS. 295 – Part IV (fols. 133–6v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Glossed, fragm.
On Codex 6 tit. 37–49, 7. 11–17. The innermost (and presumably outermost) bifolia of the original quire are missing.
Ed. F. de Zulueta, The Liber Pauperum of Vacarius (Selden Soc. 44, 1927), this copy pp. xxviii-xxix.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols for 46 lines of text; the surrounding gloss ruled for ad hoc, or not ruled for at all.
Hand(s)
Written in expert early gothic bookhands, one for the text, another for the earliest glosses, of French and ‘scholastic’ appearance.
Decoration
Red or green initials.
History
Provenance
The book of which IV is a fragment was probably made, like other surviving copies of the work, in the west midlands.
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 .
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-10-25: First online publication