French didactic treatises
St John's College MS 102
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
French didactic treatises
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 102
Place of origin
France
Date
s. xv med.
Language
MISSING:
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHFin books 1–3, HSOS/ HFFH in the remainder).
Physical extent
Fols. iv + 150+ ii (numbered fols. v–vi).
Hands
Written in lettre bâtarde by four or five scribes, one for each text (each one is a booklet).
Decoration
Booklets 1–2: headings in red.
At the head, a 10-line violet champe on gold leaf, with flower and vine design and demivinet with flowers and gold buds, badly defaced, affecting the legibility of most of the leaf.
Each chapter begins with a 2-line champe.
In booklet 2 only, ochre-slashed capitals divide the text.
Booklets 3–5: headings are unfilled.
At the head, a 10-line plain champe, with gold bud and flower demivinet.
At chapter breaks, 2-line red lombards.
In booklet 4 rubrics have been filled, and at the head of booklet there is only a crude 5-line champe with partial border, badly defaced.
The common finishing of the individual booklets is suggestive of centrally planned piecework production. See AT, no. 761 (75) dating s. xv1/2.
Binding
Dark brown leather, s. xvii, over millboards with a gold fillet on both boards. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘102’ at the head of the spine, in ink on the leading edges. Pastedowns modern paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, two modern paper flyleaves and two medieval vellum flyleaves, both ruled as the pages of text 1, the bottom half of the second (fol. iv) cut away; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves (v–vi).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Christophorj Colesartium Bacchalaurij ejusdem Coll Conuictoris 1611 o’ (fol. 2, upper margin).
Provenance
‘Chyrshley hathe in kepyng iij. boxys of ewydencys to kepe endeferently bytwen me and wylliam herd asse apperth appereth by endenturs made bytwens us and in a box with xxxti. ewidences and the other xviij. and in the iijd. xj.’ (fol. iv, s. xv/xvi).
Pen-trials (fol. ivv, s. xvi).
An old shelfmark ‘74’ and table of contents, omitting the final text (fol. iiiv, s. xvii).
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