Merton College MS. 314
Former shelfmark: F. 3. 1
INDEXES TO PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS; S. XIV
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. i, ii-iii, iv blank. On f. ivv is a table of contents in the same hand (s. xiv) as in MS 180 &c., and another of s. xvii.
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; formerly chained from the usual position. f. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Running up f. iv is a thoroughly-erased inscription of three lines in large writing, beginning with a paraph. Running up f. iv is ‘Iste liber est fratrum predicatorum Oxoniensis quod qui alienauerit anathema sit … ubicumque alienetur.’ In the upper margin of f. 1, cropped, is ‘… et quondam socii eiusdem domus’, s. xv in.
On f. iiiv ‘Hunc librum ligari fecit M. Robertus Bukmote anno regni E [mutil.]’. Buckmott (BRUO 299) was fellow c. 1455–69; the inscription was written after the accession of Edward IV in March 1461.
At the head of f. 1 is the James no. ‘22’, s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with contents, s. xvii, and ‘Q. 3. 16. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 3. 14’ (corr. to ‘F. 3. 1’) and ‘(CCCXIV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘16’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part I (fols. 1–72v; 160–167v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Indexes to ARISTOTLE, Physics and Parua Naturalia
Leaves have been left wholly or partly blank passim, corresponding to gaps in the text. Wholly blank are fols. 10v-11, 15v (covered with pencil notes), 35rv, 63v, 64–8v (covered with pencil notes). f. 72rv blank but for a few notes on 72v.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 49 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in a small English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part II (fols. 73–131v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with crayon in 2 cols of 38–40 lines
Hand(s)
Written in an anglicana hand using pale ink.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part III (fols. 132–47v; 160–6v; 167 blank)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A fragment, Oculi—Zirbus
f. 167v blank but for faint doodles.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 49 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an anglicana hand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part IV (fols. 148–59v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The table is written in the l. h. col. In the r. h. col. additional quaestiones have been added in an anglicana hand of scholastic type.
In the anglicana hand of the additions to art. 5.
At the head of f. 155v is a title, cropped by the binder: ‘⟨?Questiones⟩ .x. G. de Segre’. This should be Gilbert de Segrave (BRUO 1663–4), d. 1312, who according to Leland wrote Quaestiones and Quodlibeta. This would appear to be the only surviving copy of the former.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 2 cols of 48 lines; fols. 155v-9v are frame-ruled only, written in c. 54 lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an English gothic rotunda bookhand.
Decoration
Unfilled spaces for coloured initials and rubrics.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part V (fols. 168–79v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
Frame-ruled with pencil in 2 cols; written in c. 44 lines
Hand(s)
Written in an anglicana hand, using very pale ink.
Decoration
Red paraphs, highlighting and underlining.
Merton College MS. 314 – Part VI (fols. 180–95v)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fols. 194–5v were originally a single leaf, folded and bound in sideways; on 194v-5 is a draft of a letter or sermon in early faded pencil.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled with pencil in 32 long lines.
Hand(s)
Written in an anglicana hand.
Decoration
Red paraphs, highlighting and underlining.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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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
2019-11-13: First online publication