Merton College MS. 296
Former shelfmark: K. 1. 6
COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE &c.; c. 1300
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. i-iiv blank.
Quaestio-titles are given in the lower margins throughout, and there is some, but not copious, annotation. The condition of the parchment, however, shows that the book was heavily used.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 48–52 lines.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The secundo folio reading identifies it as UO46. 68, ‘in xvii quaternis ligatus et sine asceribus’, bequeathed by John of Sandwich (BRUO 1639–40), fellow in 1321, still in 1324. In UO48. 118 it is described as ‘quaternus’, in UO50. 57 as ‘expositorem sex principiorum’, in UO51. 33 as ‘expositorem logice’.
At the foot of f. 77 are pencilled the names ‘Iohannes Westram’ and ‘Robertus Derby’, s. xiv. The second may have been Robert de Derby (BRUO 571), fellow of Oriel College in 1360, until his death, by July 1361.
Inside the front cover, on a sheet of paper, are a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘Q. 2. 12. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced with modern ‘K. 1. 6 (CCXCVI)’, in red ink, and the College bookplate.
Merton College MS. 296 – Part I (fols. 1–130v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Also in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl. Clm 9677, pp. 221–36.
Unpr.; Lohr, p. 370, citing only Basel, Universitätsbibl. V. IV. 35, fols. 47–61 (s. xiii).
Unpr.; Lohr, p. 211, citing only Bodl. Libr., Rawl. A. 428, fols. 59-(96), s. xv; the version here is obviously much shorter. Sharpe, Handlist, p. 158, not this copy. Nothing is known of the author.
Unpr.; Lohr, p. 386.
STO 1*/2. 3–247; Glorieux, Théol. 14ba; Lohr, p. 164.
Excerpts ed. S. Ebbesen and J. Pinborg, ‘Studies in the Logical Writings attributed to Boethius of Dacia’, CIMA 3 (1970), pp. 1–54, at 17–22; Lohr, p. 355; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 428, two copies, not this one.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
A university hand, writing gothic rotunda with some anglicana forms, using very black ink. The lemmata are written in larger and more formal script.
Decoration
None: unfilled spaces for initials and rubrics; a very few rubrics supplied.
History
Merton College MS. 296 – Part II (fols. 131–168v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Unpr.; Kaeppeli 1644; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 806, citing this and three other copies.
Unpr.; Pinborg, Sprachlogik, p. 321 (A 71); also in Bodl. Libr., Digby 55, fols. 131–51, a different reportatio.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
An anglicana hand.
Decoration
None: unfilled spaces for 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
2019-10-25: First online publication