Hebrew biblical books with the Vulgate and Latin glosses

Title

Hebrew biblical books with the Vulgate and Latin glosses

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 143

Date

s. xii/xiii (the Hebrew), s. xiii med. and ex. (Latin)

Language

Latin

Hebrew

Anglo-Norman

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. 172+ i.

Hands

The Hebrew has been pointed by one of the Latin hands; the marginal translation written in textura semiquadrata , s. xiii med.; the interlinear translation written in textura prescissa with occasional anglicana letter forms, s. xiii ex.Punctuation in the marginal translation only by medial point. Although the Hebrew text reads right to left, as is customary (and the interlinear gloss must be read in the same direction), the book opens as a normal western one and reads from front to rear.

Decoration

Blanks for initial capitals unfilled.

Running titles for books frequently supplied in a hand resembling the one that wrote the interlinear gloss.

Binding

Brown leather over millboards, s. xvii?, with stamped centre rectangle with fleur-de-lis at corners. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘143’ at the head of the spine; in black ink on the leading edges. Pastedowns modern paper. No flyleaves at the front; at the rear, a single modern paper flyleaf (i).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Divi Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono Edvardi BernardiSocii 1667’ ( fol. 1, upper margin).