Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospels
St John's College MS 121
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospels
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 121
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xv in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
ii + 112 (numbered to 111; the final leaf is the current rear pastedown).
Hands
Written in anglicana formata , by at least three scribes: the stints run fols. 1–8v, fols. 9–58v, fols. 59–111. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus (scribe i); to these, scribe 2 adds the punctus interrogativus; by point and occasional punctus elevatus and virgula (scribe 3).
Decoration
Headings in red.
Two-line blue lombards on red flourishing at the beginning of each sermon.
Within sermons, red-slashed capitals to divide the text.
To fol. 30, the homily number is provided in the upper corner of rectos.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. Pastedowns are medieval vellum, a College bookplate on the front pastedown, the rear one a ruled waste sheet from the MS, its original final leaf. The front pastedown has holes and verdigris stains, probably from a chain-staple in Watson’s position 6. At the front, two medieval vellum flyleaves; no extra leaves at the rear.
Acquisition
Given by John White , listed in the Benefactors’ Book (col. ii) as ‘Gregorij homiliae in Euangeliae MS’.
Provenance
A table of the forty homilies (fol. ii, secretary, s. xv med.).
‘Precium libri xiij. s iiij. d’ (fol. 111v, s. xv); another contemporary pen-trial on the rear pastedown.
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