Radulphus Ardens, Homeliae, etc.
St John's College MS 54
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Radulphus Ardens, Homeliae, etc.
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 54
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xv in. or xv 1
s. xv med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Composed of three originally separate MSS, all paper with the outside and centre bifolia of each quire vellum.
Physical extent
Fols. iii + 80+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).
Decoration
No decoration in any of the three books; the scribes all left blanks with guide letters for capitals at text divisions, none of them filled.
In Manuscript 1, unfilled blanks for rubrics; occasions for the sermons and biblical sources added in the margins in a contemporary hand; one original rubric in text ink at fol. 43ra.
Binding
Plain brown leather, with a simple gold fillet on both boards, s. xvii. Sewn on five thongs. ‘54’ on a paper lozenge pasted to the head of the spine and in black ink on the centre of the upper board. Pastedowns modern paper, with a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, three modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, three modern paper flyleaves (iv–vi).
Acquisition
‘Iohannes Whyte dedit hunc librum Thome White de London’ Militi ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon’ Anno 1555’ ( fol. 1, the lower margin).
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