Philip the Chancellor, Sermons on the Psalter

Title

Philip the Chancellor, Sermons on the Psalter

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 118

Associated place

Oxford

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii med.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 161 + iii(numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written in gothic textura quadrata , more than one hand, below top line. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus.

Decoration

Two-line red lombards at textual divisions, usually unfilled blanks.

The text underlined in rubric, but only in very early parts of the MS.

A number of unfilled blanks for headings.

Binding

Brown leather over millboards with a stamped gold fillet, s. xvii. Sewn on five thongs. Black ink ‘118’ on a paper lozenge at the top of the spine, in black ink on the leading edges. Pastedowns old vellum, on the front one a College bookplate and filled nail-holes and rust from two strap fittings, on the rear ‘Saffrey’ (s. xv). At the front, two modern paper fly-leaves, one medieval vellum one, with another (torn) College bookplate; at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown) and two modern paper flyleaves.

Acquisition

'Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Richardi ButlerDoctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt” ( fol. 1, upper margin).

Provenance

Two lines, perhaps the opening of a booklist ( fol. iv, at the top, s. xiv in.).

‘Spalterium Glosatum’ (fol. iiiv, s. xv and a similar identification, s. xvii).

‘Liber Richardi Butler Rectoris de Aston in le walles ex dono Magistri Albani Butlersenioris 21 Decembris 1607’ ( fol. iiiv).