Letters: Arnulf of Lisieux, John of Salisbury excerpted, Peter of Cella; Jerome, ‘Interpretatio nominum Hebreorum’
St John's College MS 126
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Letters: Arnulf of Lisieux, John of Salisbury excerpted, Peter of Cella; Jerome, ‘Interpretatio nominum Hebreorum’
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 126
Place of origin
England
Date
variously s. xii ex. and s. xiii in.
s. xii/xiii or xiii in.
s. xii ex.
s. xiii in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Comprising five originally separate MSS, all on vellum (all HSOS/ HFFH).
Physical extent
Fols. i + 176(numbered fols. 1–175, ii) + i.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a modern paper flyleaf (with a College bookplate on the verso); at the rear a modern paper flyleaf (iii).
Provenance
‘Hic liber est ecclesie Sancte Marie de Suwicha Quem qui ei uiolenter auferre uel titulum istum dolo dolere presumpserit nisi eidem ecclesie condigne satisfecerit sit anathema Maranat amen amen amen’ (fols. 153v–4, lower margin in rubricator’s red). The erasure following item 4 (fol. 146v)apparently removed a similar statement of ownership; legible under ultraviolet light in the first line is ‘prior Sut ’.
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