Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations glossed
St John's College MS 42
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations glossed
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 42
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xiii1
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. iv + 96+ vi (numbered fols. v–x).
Hands
In two sizes of gothic textura quadrata , the gloss above the top line, but the text beneath it. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Headings in red, for the alphabetical divisions within Lamentations only.
A 9-line red and blue lombard at the head, on red vine-work with blue touches and flourishing; a smaller and rather more stylized example at the beginning of Lamentations.
Chapter numbers in alternate red and blue roman numerals marginally.
Glosses introduced by large alternating red and blue paraphs, sometimes with enlarged lombards in text ink.
Running titles in alternate red and blue lombards (Iere mie throughout).
Musical notation
Fols. 96 v–vv, viv are covered with faded notes, including some music.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and a medieval vellum flyleaf; at the rear, three medieval vellum flyleaves, two modern paper ones, and another marbled paper one (v–x). The last vellum flyleaf (fol. vii)may have been a pastedown in an earlier binding.
Acquisition
'Liber Collegij Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Venerabilis Virj Richardi Butler Doctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt’ procurante Reuerendo in Cristo Patre Iohanne Episcopo Roffens 1613’ ( fol. 1, in the gutter).
Provenance
Three erased ownership inscriptions: on fol. 1, upper margin, ‘Liber is herici henrici simones’ (s. xiv2); others at the top of fol. vii and on fol. viiv, this last in part ‘ amico Rogero Walter suus R ’.
‘Iohannes backhusme possidet precium ij s’ ( fol. 1, upper margin).
‘Commentarivs G Altisiodorensis in Ieremiam’ (s. xvii, probably the hand of Christopher Wren), and ‘42’, an early form of the College shelfmark ( fol. 1upper margin).
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