Guillaume de Paris, dialogue on the sacraments

Title

Guillaume de Paris, dialogue on the sacraments

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 169

Place of origin

English

Date

s. xv2/4

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

iv + 90 (numbered 1–87, v–vii) + ii (numbered viii–ix).

Hands

Written in anglicana (with secretary a). Punctuation by occasional medial point.

Decoration

Chapter numbers marginally in text ink.

A 3-line blue lombard on red flourishing at the head of the prologue.

One-line alternate red and blue lombards to break up the text; an unflourished 2-line blue lombard at the head of the index, where chapter numbers are introduced with alternate red and blue paraphs.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated 1916 on the verso), a modern paper flyleaf, and two medieval vellum flyleaves; at the rear, one modern paper flyleaf and another marbled leaf (vii–ix). The last leaf of the MS proper (fol. vii) was a pastedown in an earlier binding.

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sancti Johannis Baptistae ex dono Thomae Walker in Artibus Magistri et ejusdem Collegii Socij’ (fol. 2, upper margin, s. xvii).

Provenance

‘þe lyttell pars oculi’ (fol. vii, s. xv).

‘Istum librum emit M Ric’ lagharn’ a domino Willielmo Chapman’ capellano anno domini M moCCCCmosexagesimo octauo pro ij s et oret Ric’ pro animabus Iohannis et parentum Willielmi’ (fol. 87, lower margin, in anglicana consonant with that date). Laghornwas a Fellow of Magdalen 1459–77 and donated volumes to that College library (BRUO 1107, implying that our MS may have been part of the Magdalen bequest).