Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica
St John's College MS 34
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 34
Place of origin
French
Date
s. xii ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (HSOS/HFFH)
Physical extent
ii + 185 + iii (numbered iii-v)
Hands
Written in gothic textura semiquadrata. Punctuation by point, and occasional punctus elevatus
Decoration
Headings in red.
At the heads of books, a line of alternating red and blue 2-line arabesque capitals with flourishing.
Sections within books set off by 2-line arabesque capitals, alternating red and blue with flourishing of the other colour; inset glosses begin with 1-line alternating red and blue arabesque capitals.
Red running titles to indicate the biblical book (ending at fol. 117v, a quire bound); some effort to supply them in pencil in later portions.
On fol. 1ra a very damaged 25-line I in gold leaf (originally with violet-brown infill, now faded?) on a dark blue ground. At fol. 52va (the start of Joshua, similarly fol. 62rb, Kings), an 18-line L in gold with blue infill on a violet-brown ground. Similar rather crude champes later: 6-line at Tobit (fol. 101ra), 8-line for the gospels (126va), 7-line for Acts (162rb).
See AT, no. 654 (65), dated c.1200.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper and a paper flyleaf; at the rear, two paper flyleaves and a marbled paper one (iii–v).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Magistrj Iohannis LambeRegistrarij Petriburgensis’ (fol. 2, upper margin). Our MS appears in Laud Exhib Addenda [21].
Provenance
Two lines of Latin medical notes, perhaps verse (on a bit of vellum 85 mm x 135–50 mm, mounted on the front pastedown, s. xiii ex.)
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