Documents of the Council of Constance
St John's College MS 45
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Documents of the Council of Constance
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 45
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xv med. or xv 3/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. The quires are regular groups, usually of six sheets, folded in folio. Excepting three sheets without watermarks (fols. 245 + 252, 307 + 312, and perhaps 268 + 277), on a single stock, of the type Drache/Basilic, of a fairly anonymous sort, not immediately associable with any single example in Piccard.
Physical extent
ii + 409 + v (numbered iii–vii).
Hands
Written in secretary. Punctuation by occasional point.
Decoration
Entirely unadorned.
All textual divisions have penwork initials in the ink of the text.
Where spaces have been left for rubrication, they are unfilled (guide letters survive).
All headings in the text ink.
Binding
Dark brown leather, s. xvii, over millboards, with a simple gold fillet on both boards. The front pastedown is vellum, with a text on the board side and a College bookplate pasted on; the rear pastedown is modern paper. At the front, two paper flyleaves, followed by a vellum stub, from the pastedown; at the rear, five paper flyleaves (iii–vii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegii Divi Joannis Baptistae Oxon Ex dono Edwardis BernardiSocii 1667’ (fol. 1, the lower margin).
Provenance
An old shelfmark ‘Abac: ij. N.35’ (the front pastedown).
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