Peter of Cornwall OSA, Pantheologus
St John's College MS 31
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Peter of Cornwall OSA, Pantheologus
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 31
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xii/xiii or xiii in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).
Physical extent
Fols. iv (numbered fols. i–iii, 1) + 179(numbered fols. 2–180) + iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).
Hands
Written in gothic textura quadrata , above the top line; in spite of the format shift, the same hand throughout. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus .
Decoration
Headings in red.
At book divisions, 8- to 12-line red and blue arabesque capitals with vine infills in red, blue, and green.
Two-line arabesque capitals at chapter divisions, alternating green on red flourishing, red on blue flourishing, and blue on red flourishing.
Sporadic 1-line red arabesque capitals within chapters.
Chapter lists at the end of each book have entries introduced by alternate 1-line green, red, and blue capitals.
Running titles with the book number in text ink; frequent marginal indications of authorities.
In the table at the head, frequent leaf line-fillers on fol. 3rband some extended penwork flourishing in text ink and red at the page foot.
Fol. 77va, apparently to fill a break in the text, has a rectangular vine and flower design in the three colours.
See AT, no. 129 (16).
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and a medieval vellum flyleaf ( fol. 1, half a bifolium, preceded by two stubs, one its conjugate); at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (iv–vi).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegii Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Venerabilis virj Richardi Tileslye Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris Ecclesiae Cathedralis Roffensis Archidiaconj Ejusdemque Collegii olim socij 1619’ ( fol. 2, vertically along the leading edge).
Provenance
‘Hic liber est beati thome Martiris De Lesnesquem qui eum abstulerit aut super eo fraudem fecerit fit anathema Maranata’ ( fol. 2, the lower margin; s. xiii ex.) (Ker, MLGB 114).
Two notes on the text and its author ( fol. iv, s. xvii).
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