Bible: Joshua, Judges, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and Acts glossed

Title

Bible: Joshua, Judges, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and Acts glossed

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 16

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii med.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

). Fols. iii + 132+ ii (numbered fols. iv–v).

Hands

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata , the gloss above top line but the text below it. Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

No headings. Seven- to 9-line red and blue lombards at the heads of texts (an unfilled 12- or 13-line space at the head of Judges), with marginal flourishes in the same.

Chapters noted by alternate red and blue roman numerals in margins (guides survive, but many chapter numbers have been supplied later, often in response to originally misplaced guides, with old painting erased and correct penwork numerals supplied).

Verses begin with alternate red and blue 1-line lombards.

Marginal glosses are introduced by large alternating red and blue paraphs.

Running titles in alternate red and blue lombards identify the books.

See AT no. 254 (26), dating the book s. xiii2.

Binding

Modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘16’ at the top of the spine; and in black ink on the leading edges. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, a modern paper leaf and another marbled paper leaf ( iv–v). A College bookplate on the front pastedown.

Acquisition

'Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono venerabilis virj Rich ButlerDoctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northamp procurante Reuerendo in Christo Patre Johanne Episcopo Roffensi 1613' (fol. 1) .

Provenance

'Hic liber est commentarius Adamantij in Josua Judices Tobit Judith Esther et Acta’ ( fol. 1 , the leading edge margin; s. xvii).