Bartholomew of Pisa, Summa de casibus
St John's College MS 53
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bartholomew of Pisa, Summa de casibus
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 53
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xv med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. ii + 180(numbered fols. 1–178, iii, iv) + i (numbered fol. v).
Hands
Written in anglicana (with secretary a). There appear to be at least four scribes, the first two working in near concert. Generally speaking, however, the production is consonant with a divided exemplar having been distributed among various copyists; some effort seems to have been made to disguise exchanges between one copyist and another by making the same scribe copy a full opening across quire boundaries. Punctuation by point and virgula.
Scribe 1 copied fols. 1–12 va, 16, and most of 17v–40 (quires 1, 3–5).
A different hand, not apparent elsewhere, has written a little on fol. 3rab, and the next scribe writes intermittently in later parts of scribe 1’s stint.
Scribe 2 copied fols. 12 va–15vb, 17, intermittent sections through to fol. 40, and 40v–87v(quires 6–11). The end of his stint corresponds with a cancelled final leaf, presumably the result of inaccurate ‘casting off’ of the supply of text.
Scribe 3 copied only fols. 88–96 (quire 12).
Scribe 4 copied the remainder, fols. 96v–178v(quires 13–23); his work may actually have begun with quire 14, and he may have filled in quire 12 to join with scribe 3, since yet another cancelled leaf occurs at its end (following fol. 102).
Decoration
At the head of the prologue and of individual letters in the alphabetically arranged text, 3- and 4-line blue lombards on red flourishing.
Individual entries headed by 2- and 3-line red lombards on red flourishing; the argument divided by red paraphs.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf and one medieval vellum flyleaf; at the rear, one modern paper flyleaf (v).
Acquisition
‘Iohannes White de Suthwyke in Comitatu Sutht Armiger dedit hunc librum Thome White de londonmiiti ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon’ Anno 1555’ ( fol. 1 , the upper margin, with shelfmark ‘53’).
Provenance
‘Antony Wallum [three times] PB.’ (fol. 3vb, s. xvi/xvii).
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