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

Merton College D. 3. 5 (23-4)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Theological work (bk. 2, chs De pronitate peccandi, Quod peccatum corrumpit bona naturalia, Vtrum ueniali peccato debeatur pena eterna, De peccato mortali)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: Two bifolia, the second cropped at the head with loss of text
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 115 mm.

Layout

Red with pencil in 2 cols of 55 lines

Hand(s)

Written in a small neat gothic bookhand.

Decoration

Red or blue initials flourished in the other colour; running heads in red and blue capitals.

History

Origin: s. xiii ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly a wrapper for ‘MCR F’ (buttery-book, c. 1580).

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.

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .

Last Substantive Revision

2019-11-08: First online publication

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