Monastic theology

Title

Monastic theology

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 177

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xvi in.

Language

English

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper: folded in quarto, but the quires appear formed from odd half-sheets. There are two different watermarks: A: Main/Hand:the mark resembles Piccard XVII, nos. 1306, 1318, and 1350–70, a type generally in use 1517 × 1536 ; B: Main/Hand: a mark of the type Piccard XVII, nos. 1476–82, recorded from the 1540s (no. 1481 a stock recorded in London); this appears unambiguously only on the two leaves fols. 72 and 78 .

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 104+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Hands

Written in secretaryof varying degrees of formality, and with varying anglicanaforms, ranging from totally informal up to bastard, probably not a single hand. Punctuation by pointonly.

Decoration

Headings in more formal versions of the text hand; a few swag capitals, but generally spaces left blank.

Binding

Plain brown leather over millboards; original may be s. xvii ex. now rebacked, with a modest stamped fillet. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘177’ at the head of the spine, in black ink on the leading edges. Pastedowns and endleaves marbled paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, the marbled leaf and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (iv–vi).

Provenance

‘Sir this is to let you vnderstand that your daughtre is in good heith and all thinges ar well god be prased and this is to let you vnderstand ’ (fol. 47v, upside down, lower margin, s. xvi med.); further notes and pen-trials on fols. 34 and 48, margin, s. xvi ex.

A variety of s. xvi notes, mostly English (on regimen?) ( fols. 64v–5, the margins).