Alphabetum narrationum and Clement, Itinerarium Petri
St John's College MS 112
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Alphabetum narrationum and Clement, Itinerarium Petri
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 112
Associated place
Italian
English
French
Place of origin
England
probably English or French
Date
s. xiv in.
s. xiii in.
s. xiii ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
both on vellum (the first FSOS/FHHF, the second HSOS/HFFH).
Physical extent
Fols. ix + 210 (numbered fols. 1–208, x, xi) + xiii (numbered fols. xii–xxiv).
Binding
Reddish-brown leather re-covering over millboards, with a stamped fillet, s. xix. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘112’ at the top of the spine, smeared traces in black ink on the leading edges. Old vellum pastedowns, a College bookplate on the front one. At the front, eight vellum leaves from MS and a modern vellum flyleaf, at the rear, fols. x and xiare part of manuscript 2 ( fol. xia pastedown in an earlier binding), fol. xiia vellum flyleaf, and fols. xiii–xxivfrom MS (the last having been used as a pastedown).
Provenance
A partly erased inscription ‘pro anima Magistri Willielmi de dalton’ (fol. 115, upper margin, s. xiv1). See C. L. Shadwell, ‘A Catalogue of the Library of Oriel College in the year 1375 A.D.’, in Collectanea First Series , OHS 5 (1885), 69,which includes: ‘Itinerarium Clementis per Dalton secundo folio tanquam’ (Ker, MLGB 149, 292 as an Oriel College book).
Brief notes and pen-trials (fol. x, the top, s. xiv1; fol. xv, xv; fol. xi, the top, s. xv).
The old College shelfmark ‘Abac: ij. Nº. 7’ (the front pastedown).
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