Vulgate Bible

Title

Vulgate Bible

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 100

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 332 + iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata by three scribes, all writing above top line:

Scribe 1 copied fols. 1–197vb (the end of Ecclus.)

Scribe 2 copied to the end of the Old Testament (fol. 266rb)

Scribe 3 copied the New Testament, usually in brown ink

Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus (all three scribes).

Decoration

Headings in red.

On fol. 1ra, a 6-line red and blue arabesque capital with floral infill in blue and white; on fol. 1va, a red and blue I on a green ground, with a nimbed angel at the top and a floral spray at the foot.

Books introduced by 4- to 6-line blue or red and blue lombards on red flourishing; chapters sometimes have 1-line red lombards at the head, more usually only marked by marginal numbering, typically in one colour, blue, or red, or (early on) green, sometimes with a paraph in the contrasting colour.

Running titles similarly in red or blue lombards, often with contrasting paraph.

See AT, no. 179 (20).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (iv–vi).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Richardi Butler Doctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt rogatu Reuerendo Patre Episcopo Roffensi 1613’ (fol. 2, upper margin).

Provenance

‘dauid’ (fol. 179, lower margin).

‘Liber Joannis Ryngrosij ex dono Domini Ricardi de Westowre’ (fol. 1, upper margin, s. xvi ex.).