Bibliography: Jerome, Gennadius, Isidore, Cassiodorus

Title

Bibliography: Jerome, Gennadius, Isidore, Cassiodorus

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 115

Associated place

Jerusalem

Oxford

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xii med.

Language

Latin

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. ii + 149+ ii (numbered fols. iii–iv).

Hands

Written in caroline; a good many titles either explicated or provided by an anglicana/secretaryhand, s. xv med. , that of Thomas Gascoigne (for him, see BRUO 745–8). Punctuation by medial point and punctus elevatus.

Decoration

Headings in red, especially frequent in the margin in text 2; the first is in rustic capitals, as are the openings of some texts.

At the heads of the texts, 6- and 7-line red and green arabesque initials, with plant designs including blue and gold.

At divisions, alternate 2-line red and green arabesque initials.

See AT, no. 57 (9).

Binding

Dark brown leather over millboards, with a stamped fillet on both boards, s. xvii. Sewn on four thongs. Gold ‘115’ at the head of the spine; in black ink on the leading edges, also spattered with a bit of red. Pastedowns modern paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, two modern paper fly- leaves; at the rear; two more (iii–iv).

Provenance

In Oxford s. xv med. and annotated by Thomas Gascoigne, chancellor of the university; his customary marks ‘ihesus maria’ frequently at the upper edges, e.g. fols. 1–4v, 5v (partly Greek), 7v, etc. For him and his bequests of books, see BRUO 745–8(our MS unnoted in a long list of books he owned and annotated) and Winifred A. Pronger, ‘Thomas Gascoigne’, English Historical Review 53 (1938), 606–26, our MS mentioned at 623 n. 6.

‘deo gracias quia legi totum librum istumanno gracie 1487. infra spacium x. dierum ab eius inceptione finem faciendo 19. die septembris circa mediam noctem’ (fol. 145, lower margin).