Petrarch, De vita solitaria
St John's College MS 142
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Petrarch, De vita solitaria
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 142
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xv3/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum and paper (HSOS/HFFH). From fol. 25, entirely vellum. The first three quires are mixed: the first two, a vellum sheet around a single paper sheet, both folded in quarto; the third, a vellum sheet folded in quarto around a paper half-sheet (fols. 18 + 23) and a vellum half-sheet. All the paper appears to be of a single stock with watermark Waage/ Balance (on fols. 2 + 7 and 10 + 15); in quire 3, the half-sheet is unmarked.
Physical extent
iii + 69 + iii (numbered iv–vi).
Hands
Written in secretary, perhaps more than one hand (above top line, as in many other MSS of s. xv). Punctuation by medial point and occasional punctus elevatus.
Decoration
At text divisions, 2-line blue lombards on red flourishing and sprays.
Headings and frequent marginal notations of subjects in text ink with red boxes.
The text broken with red-slashed capitals.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, one modern paper flyleaf and one medieval vellum one (probably a former pastedown); at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf, one modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled paper leaf (iv–vi).
Acquisition
‘Liber Coll’ Divi Ioannis Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono Martini Okinssacrae Theologiae Bacchalaurei eiusdemque Collegii Socij Anno Domini 1610’ (fol. 1, upper margin).
Provenance
'Liber Magistri Iohanni KermerdynRectoris generalis sancti Martini inf Ludgate London''; below it an erased cautio: ‘istum librum Kermerdyn posuit in libro anno CCCC ’ (fol. iv, s. xv). For Kermerdyn, see BRUO 1040.
‘nota omnes autem stulti miscentur contumelijs prouerbiorum 20.’ (fol. 67, upper margin; s. xv ex.); another pen-trial (fol. 64v, upper margin; s. xvi in.).
‘Iohn moryssonwilliham denys gentylman of myddylsex’ (fol. 65, upper margin; s. xvi in.).
‘liber Henrici dotyn 1562’ (fol. iiiv). He was a Fellow of Exeter 1554–60 and in 1558 owned BodL, MS Auct. D.4.9 .
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