John Lydgate, Life of our Lady, etc
St John's College MS 56
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
John Lydgate, Life of our Lady, etc
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 56
Associated place
Cambridge
Place of origin
England
Date
s.xv3/4
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper: the quires, excluding losses, are regular groups of six sheets (seven in quire 6) folded in folio. There are three paper stocks: A: Stern/Étoile: not in Briquet, but most closely resembles no. 6046, dated 1453; the sole stock of quires 1–4 (twenty-four sheets). B: Lilie/Fleur de lis: certainly of the type Piccard XIII, nos. 715–21, German, in the main 1447 x 1453, but with later examples 1458, 1469, 1472; the sole stock in quire 5 and on three sheets, the two outside and the fifth from the outside in quire 6 (ten sheets). C: Croissant: cf. Briquet, no. 5291, from Grenoble and other southern French localities 1443 x 1457; the fourth sheet from the outside and the central bifolium of quire 7 (two sheets; the now mainly lost fol. 84 had a watermark, presumably either this one or stock B).
Physical extent
Fols. i + 85+ iii (numbered fols. 86–7, ii).
Hands
Written in secretary. Punctuation by virgulaat mid-line and a descendant of the punctus versusat line ends.
Decoration
Three- and four-line blank spaces for capitals at the heads of texts, all unfilled with guide letters; some red underlining and rubrics on fols. 1 and 31.
Occasional running titles and divisions marked in the margins, all in text ink.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front and rear, one modern paper flyleaf (the rear ii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegii Sancti Joannis Baptistae Ex dono Venerabiis Viri Richardi TileslySacrae Theologiae Doctoris Archidiaconi Roffensis et Quondam Socij’ ( fol. 1, margin).
Provenance
A variety of pen-trials and signatures, all s. xv/xvi ( fols. 1, 15v, 84v); names include: ‘ Thomas Pope’ (fol. 56v, lower margin); ‘Allgernone? Togess?’ (fol. 74, leading edge margin).
Fols. 86 and 87 are added materials, two letters, s. xvi ex., sent from Cambridge by Thomas Elmesto Mr. Bachouse, Dean of Oundhill (he was the source of several of Richard Butler’s donations); and to Robart Andrewe at Peterborough.
A note identifying the texts (fol. 1, upper margin, s. xvii ex.).
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