Gregory the Great, Homelia in evangelia

Title

Gregory the Great, Homelia in evangelia

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 141

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xv med.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper. The quires are typically regular groups of three sheets folded in quarto. Fol. 46 , with mark, may be a replacement leaf; and quires 8 and 14 are constructed of two full sheets plus an unwatermarked half-sheet ( fols. 85 + 94) and of four full sheets respectively. There are four paper stocks, in the main in large blocks: A: Waage/Balance: generally of Piccard’s Type I, nos. 11–180, stocks common 1410 × 1450: quire 1 and the outermost sheet of quire 2 (four sheets total). B: Frucht/Fruit: most closely resembles Briquet, no. 7424(Bavaria, 1427, variants Provence 1429, Bruges 1435), although our mould is damaged and lacks one berry ; cf. Piccard Type II, nos. 322–441, in the main of the 1420s: the two inner sheets of quire 2, quires 3–7, the middle sheet of quire 8 (eighteen sheets total). C: Frucht/Fruit: cf. Briquet, no. 7422(Carinthia, 1429): a single example, the inner sheet of quire 8. D: Monts/Dreiberg: generally of Piccard’s Type II, nos. 474–637, stocks common 1410 × 1432, with isolated later examples: quires 9–14 (nineteen sheets total).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 170+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written in mixed anglicana-secretary, with gothic textura semiquadratafor textual lemmata. Punctuation by medial pointonly.

Decoration

Headings and running titles (the homily number at the top of rectos, for item 1 only) in red.

Two-line red lombards at the head of each gospel and of the sermon.

Lemmata underlined in red and the text divided with red-slashed capitals.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (iv–vi).

Provenance

‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Richardj ButlerDoctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt rogatu Reuerendo Patre Episcopo Roffens 1613’ (fol. 2, upper margin).