Merton College D. 3. 5 (8-9)

Language(s): Latin

Gregory, De Cura Pastorali

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Parchment

Extent: Most of two leaves

Dimensions (written): 195

The head and outer col. of text cropped.

Layout

2 cols of at least 50 lines.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic rotunda bookhand.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red.

History

Origin: s. xiv ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Taken from ‘Stack 112. c. 11’ (Sphaerae Tractatus, Venice 1531).

Eleven more leaves are in All Souls Coll., SR. 71. d. 1–3. 6–8 (Augustini Opera, vols 1–3, 6–8, Basel 1540), two leaves in each of Magdalen Coll., MS lat. 268, fols. 8, 13, lat. 266, fols. 37, 43, and lat. 267, fols. 21–2, taken from E. 17. 2 (Ovid, Basel 1549), L. 9. 11 (P. Poyssenotus, Basel 1549), and I. 10. 13 (C. Gesner, Zürich 1549); two leaves in Cambridge, Clare Coll. H. 4. 17 (C. Gesner, Zürich 1548), one leaf in Bodl. Libr., Lat. misc. b. 6, no. A. 41.

Record Sources

R. M. Thomson, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer), 2009.

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Merton College Library.

Bibliography

Ker, Pastedowns, nos 324 (p. 32 n. 3), 381–3, 472.

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

2019-11-19: First online publication

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges