Bible: Mark and Matthew glossed

Title

Bible: Mark and Matthew glossed

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 39

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii1

s. xii

s. xii ex

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. v + 155 + viii(numbered fols. 156–9, the last a folded bifolium bound as if a single leaf, vi–viii).

Hands

Written in two different styles of gothic textura, the text often in a thick and formal semiquadrata, the gloss only slightly smaller but a much thinner and more current quadrata.The text is below the top line, the gloss often extending into the upper margin. At least two, and perhaps three, scribes: scribe 2 copied fols. 44–86; if there is a third, he took up at fol. 120 v; and scribe 1 is responsible for the remainder. Punctuation by medial point, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus .

Decoration

No headings. At the heads of the texts, 8- or 9-line red and blue lombards on flourished grounds of red with blue.

Alternating 2-line red and blue lombards at verse- heads.

Glosses introduced by large alternate red and blue paraphs, usually with a 1-line lombard in the other colour.

In some quires, the paraphs have long descenders running into the lower margin.

Some running titles and chapter numbers added later, at various times—in lead, rubric, etc.

Binding

Modern replacement, with imitation s. xvi rolls and punches over wood. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, three modern vellum flyleaves and two medieval ones ( fols. iv–v, a bifolium, fol. ivdamaged and partly remounted), a College bookplate on fol. ivv. At the rear, five medieval vellum flyleaves (counting a bifolium put in as a single leaf; fol. 159, as two) and three modern vellum flyleaves ( 156–9, vi–viii).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Richardj ButlerArchidiaconi Northampt’ Doctoris Theologiae Procurante Reuerendo in Cristo Patre Iohanne Episcopo Roffensi’ (fol. 1v, vertically in the margin).

Provenance

The old shelfmark ‘E.y’ (fol. 1, upper margin). In form and position, this corresponds to the shelfmark of our MS 20; thus assigned, with a query, to St Andrew’s, Northampton (OClun) (Ker, MLGB 135).

A variety of pen-trials and pieces of names, in the main s. xv and s. xvi in. ( fols. 103 , lower margin; 110, lower margin; v).

Notes on contents of the MS (fol. 1, upper margin; s. xv and xvii).

‘Veritas non querit latebras ’ (4 lines); ‘Iuunt frondent silue et causa ’ (s. xvi3/4, fol. vv).