Ambrose, Guy of Southwick, Bartholomew of Exeter

Title

Ambrose, Guy of Southwick, Bartholomew of Exeter

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 163

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xii med. or xii 2

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 113+ iv (the first a tab only, numbered fols. iv–vii).

Hands

Written in protogothic bookhand , one scribe for the whole, except for fols. 35v–43, contemporary but with a much more s. xii aspect. Punctuation by point and occasionalpunctus elevatus .

Decoration

At text openings, 5-line green, gold, and red arabesque initials, often with decorative fill in blue or a contrasting colour.

Same initials, but 2 lines only, for smaller divisions within texts.

Headings in red.

Frequent running titles in red to indicate title and book division.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated 1835), a modern paper flyleaf, and a medieval vellum flyleaf pasted to a modern paper leaf; at the rear, a medieval vellum tab, two modern paper flyleaves, and another marbled paper leaf (iv–viii).

Acquisition

‘Iohannes white de Suthwyk in Comitatu Sutht Armiger dedit hunc librum whitede london militi ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon’ Anno 1555’ ( fol. 1, upper margin).

Provenance

‘Hic liber est ecclesie sancte MARIE de Suðwica [Southwick]Quem qui ei abstulerit uel titulum hunc dolo deleuerit uel aliam fraudem ei fecerit quominus eiusdem ecclesie sit anthema sit maranatha’ ( fol. 46, lower margin; s. xiii in.) ( Ker, MLGB 181).

A contents table for the book (fol. iiiv, s. xv 1).