Deuteronomy glossed
St John's College MS 104
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Deuteronomy glossed
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 104
Place of origin
France (?)
England
Date
s. xii med
s. xi2
s. xii ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. iv + 2 + i (numbered fol. 3) + 107(numbered fols. 4–110) + iv (numbered fols. v–viii).
Hands
The text and gloss written in different styles, perhaps in different hands, of protogothic bookhand . Punctuation by pointand medial point in the text, by point only in the gloss.
Decoration
At the head, a red and gold 13-gloss-line high arabesque initial.
Red marginal markers to align the text and contents table, which divides the text into 144 capitula; red paraphs and some red-slashed capitals at textual divisions.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and a medieval vellum flyleaf (fol. iv); at the rear, a medieval vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown), two modern paper flyleaves, and another marbled paper leaf (v–viii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Divi Ioannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Magistri Ioannis Stonor de Northstoke in Comitatu Oxon ’ Generosi’ (fol. 2 , upper margin).
Provenance
'Hic est liber Sancte Marie de Rading’ Quem qui celauenit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit’ ( fol. 1, above a college bookplate, the page otherwise blank) (Ker, MLGB 158).
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