Peter Lombard, Sentences

Title

Peter Lombard, Sentences

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 50

Place of origin

English

Date

s. xii 1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

iii + 153 + v (numbered iv–viii).

Hands

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata (with influence of document hands). Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus .

Decoration

Headings in red for chapters; authorities in the marginal columns also in red.

Ten-line red and blue lombards on flourishing of the same at the head of the text and other book divisions (unfilled for book 2, fol. 44ra). That for the index to book 4 (fol. 105) is green and red and extended into a floral border; at the start of book 4 (fol. 107ra), a 4-line high blue lombard on red flourishing.

The marginal authorities are introduced by alternating red and blue 2-line lombards, some with exaggerated descenders into the lower margin.

Running titles, only up to fol. 46v (book 2, dist. 5), thereafter supplied in pencil by a hand probably of s. xv.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two medieval vellum flyleaves, two stubs after the second (their conjugates, the surviving leaves, are the first two of a four-leaf quire), three modern paper flyleaves, and another marbled paper leaf (iv–viii).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Venerabilis virj Richardi Butler Doctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt procurante Reuerendo in Christo Patre Iohanne Episcopo Roffensi 1613’ (fol. i, upper margin).

Provenance

‘ o beate Marie hurl’’ (fol. 1, upper margin, cut off in the gutter, s. xiii), one of only two surviving books from Hurley (Berks., OSB) (Ker, MMBL 103).

A partly cancelled and illegible inscription (fol. 54v, upper margin).

‘W eVmlye besthe’ (fol. 114v, upside down in the lower margin in brown crayon, s. xv ex.).