John Wycliffe, Postillae in Biblia
St John's College MS 171
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
John Wycliffe, Postillae in Biblia
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 171
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xv in.
s. xv
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (of various quality, often thin and often oddly shaped leaves; FSOS/ FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. ii + 376(numbered fols. 1–374, iii, iv) + iii (numbered fols. v–vii).
Hands
Written in anglicana above top line. Punctuation by virgula, punctus elevatus, and occasional medial point.
Decoration
At the heads of individual books, 4- to 8-line red and blue lombards, unflourished (on some pages, e.g. fols. 1, 2, a red and blue marginal bar).
Two-line unflourished blue lombards at chapter divisions.
The biblical text underlined in red, and at chapter heads written in larger, more formal anglicana (also used for marginal chapter numbers, most preceded by a red or blue paraph).
Some marginal notes, introduced by alternating red and blue paraphs.
Running titles with book name, preceded by red and blue paraphs.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and one paper flyleaf at the rear, a vellum flyleaf from MS (a pastedown in an earlier binding), a modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled leaf (v–vii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Richardi ButlerDoctoris Theologiae Archidiaconi Northampt’ procurante Reucrendo in Cristo Patre Johanne Episcopo Roffensi1613’ ( fol. 2, vertically in the margin).
Provenance
'Ego dixi Tu es meus deus’ ‘Graunt ThomasTu es ipse qui libri possessor es’ ‘Aque’ (twice) ‘Ego sum bonus Puer’ ‘sunt ho’ ( fol. vii, all variously s. xv ex.). Emden (BRUO, 802–3) identifies the book as Graunt’s (he was precentor of St Paul’s 1454–74).
‘Condam fui libellus domini thome Graunte sacerdotis Et nunc sum libellus Nich’ Sykys’ (fol. 1, lower margin, upside down, s. xvi in.). Sykes also owned our MS 178 , although that book has no explicit indication of donation by Richard Butler.
Christopherus polleinsme nunc possidet’ ( fol. 1, upper leading edge, rubbed or erased, s. xvi).
'Liber Richardi Butler rectoris de Aston in le walles ex dono Magistri Albani Butler senioris21 Decembris 1607’ ( fol. 1, upper margin).
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