Alexander Nequam, De naturis rerum
St John's College MS 51
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Alexander Nequam, De naturis rerum
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 51
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xii/xiii
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).
Physical extent
ii + 172 + ii (numbered iii—iv).
Hands
Written in protogothic bookhand . Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Decoration
At the heads of the books, 6- and 7-line arabesque capitals, red on red and green flourishing.
On fol. 1, extended red and green vine-work to form a bar border.
Chapters introduced by alternate 2-line red and green arabesque capitals on flourishing of the other colour.
Sentences typically introduced by a capital in the text ink, occasionally by red paraphs or red and green (occasionally blue) 1-line arabesque capitals with flourishing of the other colour.
See AT, no. 144 (17), dating s. xiii in.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on three thongs. At the front and rear (iii–iv), a marbled paper leaf and a modern paper flyleaf.
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Divi Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Domini Gulielmi PaddeiMilitis et eiusdem Collegii olim Convictoris 1634’ (fol. 2, upper margin).
Provenance
‘Netlton Hnry Savil’ in shorthand, i.e. the early seventeenth-century collector Henry Savile of Banke(fol. 1, upper margin). See Watson, Savile, no. 9 (18).
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