Sermons, mainly Geoffrey of St Thierry

Title

Sermons, mainly Geoffrey of St Thierry

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 134

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 121(numbered 1–119, iv, v) + iv (numbered fols. vi–ix).

Hands

Written in protogothic bookhand , above top line. Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus, punctus interrogativus, and occasional punctus versus.

Decoration

Headings in red.

Three-line blue lombards with red flourishing (for the first text, a 3-line capital in red, unflourished).

Red-slashed capitals to divide the texts.

Running titles indicating the homily number, to ‘xxvi.’ on fol. 105. The correction mark ‘cor’ centred at the foot of each page.

Binding

Modern rebinding. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two paper flyleaves; at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown), two modern paper flyleaves, and another marbled paper leaf (vi–ix).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono venerabiis virj Rich TileslyeSacrae Theologiae Doctoris Ecclesiae Cathedralis Roffensis Archidiaconj ejusdemque Collegii olim socij’ (fol. 1v).

Provenance

‘Hic liber est ecclesie beati Thome martiris de liesnes [i.e. Lessness] Quem qui ei abstulerit aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit nisi eidem ecclesie plene satisfecerit anathema sit Maranatha fiat fiat amen’ (fol. 2, upper margin; ‘Lienus’ also in the margin, fol. 65) (Ker, MLGB 114).

Four quotations, from Aristotle, Bonaventura, Gregory (Moralia 5), and Augustine (fol. v; mixed anglicana/secretarys. xv ex.).

Pen-trials (fols. vv and vi, s. xv).