W. monk of Durham, Compilatio ex sacris scripturis
St John's College MS 25
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
W. monk of Durham, Compilatio ex sacris scripturis
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 25
Associated place
Grendon (Bucks.)
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xiv in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. i + 179+ i (numbered fol. ii)
Hands
Written in textura, usually with anglicanaforms for a and g, probably by three or four scribes:
1 wrote fols. 1–78 in gothic textura quadrata ;
2, fols. 79–119, 122–44in gothic textura semiquadrata;
3, fols. 144 until at least fol. 165, and possibly all the way to the end, in gothic textura quadrata .
In addition, a further scribe is responsible for the table of contents (fols. 120–1) , written on an intruded bifolium in gothic textura quadrata.
Punctuation by medial point and punctus elevatus .
Decoration
The book is generally ‘unfinished’.
Headings in red, the spaces sporadically unfilled up to fol. 74, from which point all spaces are blank.
Two-line spaces for capitals at initia (six to eight lines at book divisions), with guide letters, all unfilled.
Occasional red capitals to divide the text within chapters (the last on fol. 90), as well as (early on, after fol. 48mainly in patches) red-slashed capitals.
Binding
Plain brown leather over millboards, s. xvi. Sewn on five thongs. On both boards, remains of anchors for cloth ties to close the book. Nail-holes and an impression from a chain-staple in Watson’sposition 6. Pastedowns modern marbled paper, a College bookplate on the front one.
Single modern paper flyleaves front and rear (ii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Divi Ioannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Domini Gulielmi PaddeiMilitis et ejusdem Collegii olim Convictoris 1634’ ( fol. 2, upper margin).
Provenance
The top edge of fol. 1has been cut away, probably to remove an institutional ex-libris. Given the contents and the absence of any circulation of the work, probably a Durham book.
‘Sum liber Francisci Greine de Grindon [Coxe read ‘Swindon’, but the place is probably Grendon (Bucks.)]Vicarij Non est mortale quod opto’ ( fol. 179ra, below the explicit, s. xvi ex.). Greine also provided the rubric on fol. 122ra, where his motto appears again.
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