Ivo of Chartres, Panormia, etc.

Title

Ivo of Chartres, Panormia, etc.

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 125

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xii ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 91+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written by five scribes in late caroline, with additions by two other hands:

scribe 1 = fols. 1–48v;

scribe 2 = fols. 49–51v/12;

scribe 3 = fols. 51v/12–58v/1, with some alternation between 2 and 3 on fols. 51v–2;

scribe 4 = fols. 58v/2–72v;

scribe 5 = fols. 73–83v.

The two scribes who add material copied items 2 and 3–5 respectively.

Scribe 1 punctuates by pointand medial point, occasional punctus elevatus; to this repertoire, scribe 4 adds an occasional punctus versus; scribe 5 punctuates by point, medial point, and punctus elevatus. In the added item 2, punctuation by punctus versus, punctus elevatus, and medial point ; in items 3–5, punctuation by point and punctus elevatus .

Decoration

Headings in red (on fols. 41–60, 64v–9, 73–7 in rustic capitals, partly in text ink).

At textual divisions, 1- and 2-line red arabesque initials.

Marginal contents summaries, boxed in red and with red-slashed capitals ( fols. 5v–32 only).

Some larger penwork initials, up to 8 lines, with animal and leaf shapes.

A diagram to illustrate consanguinity, fol. 84.

See AT, no. 646 (65), who date s. xii1, identify the MS as French, and mention only one initial.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on three thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper leaves; at the rear; two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper one (iv–vi).

Acquisition

‘Iohannes Whyte de Suthwyke in Comitatu Sutht’ Armiger dedit hunc librum Thome Whytede london’ militi ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon’ Anno 1555’ ( fol. 1, lower margin).

Provenance

The old shelfmark ‘Abac ij N. 56’ (fol. 1 , upper leading edge).