John Felton (?) Pera peregrini

Title

John Felton (?) Pera peregrini

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 109

Place of origin

English

Date

s. xv 1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum.

Physical extent

ii + 247 + ii (numbered iii–iv).

Hands

Written in anglicana (universal secretary a).

Decoration

No headings; entries are headed by the lemma in textura quadrata.

Fol. 1 has a crude bar border in blue, red/ violet, and gold leaf with flower and leaf clusters.

Fol. 1, 4-line champe in red-violet and blue.

Individual items are introduced by 2- and 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing; the text broken by red paraphs and occasional red-slashed capitals.

Each section is numbered, marginally in arabic in the text ink, to 564 sections.

See AT, no. 429 (43), dating s. xv1/4.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on six thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and one modern paper flyleaf, at the rear, a medieval vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown) and another marbled paper leaf (iii–iv).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sancti Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ Donum Richardi LatewareDoctoris Theologiae huius Collegij Socij Junij xxi o. MDxcviii’ (fol. 1, lower margin).

Provenance

‘Orate pro fratre Iohanne holbechquondam priori Oseneye [Ker, MLGB 141, 287] qui istum librum ecclesie [over eras.] emit et soluit pro eodem libro xiij. s iiij. d qui vocatur abstract uslibri peregrini quem composuit Dominus Iohannes Felton’ quondam bonus vicarius ecclesie parochialis sancte Marie Magdalene OxonMagnus predicator et deuotus et a quibusdam et multis vocatus sanctus qui iacet in eadem ecclesia et est sepultus’ (fol. iii; anglicana, s. xv). At the top outer margin of fol. 1 is ‘M’, probably the Osney shelfmark.

‘liber Richardi Latewarrquem dedit ei Thomas HollandusSanctae Theologiae ProfessorRegius Oxon et Collegii Exoniensis Rector’ (fol. iii, below the preceding, now erased).

‘Pera Peregrini authore Joanne Felton’ (on a vellum tab pasted to the front pastedown, s. xvii).