Vitruvius, De architectura
St John's College MS 66B
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Vitruvius, De architectura
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 66B
Place of origin
English St Augustine's Canterbury
Date
s. xiv in./1316
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (HSOS).
Physical extent
ii + 68 (numbered 1 – 64, iii – vi) + i (numbered vii).
Hands
Written in anglicana formata (ascenders generally unlooped). Punctuation by medial point only.
Decoration
Blanks for headings unfilled.
At the head, a 9-line high red and blue lombard with flourishing and vine and leaf patterns in the same colours.
Chapters begin with 2- and 3-line alternating red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
Sentences separated by alternate red and blue paraphs, also used at the head of marginal indications of contents in the scribal hand.
Binding
Brown leather over millboards, s. xvii, with William Laud’s arms as archbishop of Canterbury gold-stamped in the centre of both boards. Sewn on five thongs. On each board, two holes with stubs of cloth ties to close the volume. Gold ‘66’ at the head of the spine, in black ink on the leading edges. Pastedowns marbled paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf and one medieval vellum one, a former pastedown with holes and rust from the mounts for two straps; at the rear, one modern paper flyleaf (vii).
Provenance
Fratris Thome de WyuelesbergheDe librario Sancti Augustinij Cantuar’ D. X. G a. IIII’ (the last numeral added later); ‘Liber victruuij de Architectura’ (fol. iiv, s. xiv). The book appears, with a slightly different shelfmark, as no. 1124 in the St Augustine’scatalogue, ed. James, AL 320: ‘Vitruuius de Architectura T. de Wyuelesberghe 2º fo Bonam D.10.G.1’ (a new MLCGB edition is in progress). Wyvelsbergh gave St Augustine’s more than thirty books (see James, 542). A. B. Emden suggests that he may have copied our MS; see his brief discussion, ‘Donors of Books to S. Augustine’s Abbey Canterbury’, Oxford Bibliographical Society occasional publication 4 (1968), 19 (Ker, MLGB 47, 246).
‘H. Elsynge’ and a monogram ‘TS’ or ‘ST’ (fol. iiv, probably s. xvii). Probably Henry Elsynge, who was Clerk of the Lords.
‘Liber Guilielmi LaudArchiepiscopi Cant et Cancellarii Vniuersitatis Oxon’ 1639’ (fol. 1, lower margin).
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