Anselm of Laon, gloss on Matthew

Title

Anselm of Laon, gloss on Matthew

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 111

Associated place

English

Place of origin

Northern France

Date

s. xii2

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 112+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written in two sizes of protogothic book-hand. Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

Generally unadorned. A 2-line red arabesque capital on fol. 5; a 7-line red and brown capital on fol. 7(with the decorated opening for the text left incomplete).

Occasional 1-line red arabesque capitals at chapter breaks and to separate the patriarchs in ch. 1.

Large in-text capitals to divide the verses, with no notation of chapters.

Rough sketches of the crucifixion in pencil on fols. 19vand 107v.

See AT, no. 90 (12), calling the MS French, s. xii 2/4, the drawings English, s. xii3/4, and plate vi (fol. 19v).

Musical notation

Notation, fol. 112v.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf (probably an old pastedown), mounted on paper, one modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled leaf (iv–vi).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono venerabilis virj Guilielmi LaudDoctoris Thaeologiae ejusdem Collegii Praesidis’ ( fol. 2 , upper margin).

Provenance

Pen-trials and notes (fol. 112ra, ss. xiii in., xiii ex., s. xv).

‘hic est liber sanctorum de May [the Isle of May, Fife]quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit’ (mounted on a vellum tag, fol. iiiv; s. xii ex.) (Ker, MLGB 130), the sole surviving book from this house.

‘William Laud’ ( fol. 1, upper margin; above a cancelled inscription).