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

Merton College Stack 112. b. 5

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: Parts of two leaves

Layout

In 35 long lines.

History

Origin: s. xv

Provenance and Acquisition

Bound in Stack 112. b. 5 (Basil, &c., Venice 1499, bought in Italy in 1589).

Two bifolia in ‘Stack 122. c. 11’ (Io. Philoponus, &c., Venice 1536, &c.); four in ‘Stack A9/B80’ (Olympiodorus, &c., Venice 1551, &c.); four in ‘23. d. 12’ (Euripides, Basel 1562); four in ‘16. h. 3’ (F. Guicciardinus, &c., Basel 1566, bought in Italy with other books ‘mittendos a.d. 1591’); four in ‘Stack A9/B87’ (Scaliger, &c., Geneva 1566, &c.); two in ‘46. b. 1’ (J. Drusius, Frankfurt 1590, given by the author).

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 1038, 1042, 1046, 1049, 1052–3, 1098.

Funding of Cataloguing

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

Last Substantive Revision

2020-01-06: First online publication

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