Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Regime du corps; Brunetto Latini excerpts

Title

Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Regime du corps; Brunetto Latini excerpts

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 68

Associated place

Bruges

Place of origin

? Flanders

Date

s. xv2

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. iii (numbered fols. ii–iv) + 76 + iv (numbered fols. v–viii).

Hands

Written in French bastard secretary (lettre bâtarde). Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

Headings in red, 2-line champes at chapter heads.

Text 2 introduced by a 4-line champe with bud sprays.

Contents tables preceding each book of item 1 introduced by 3-line champes; individual entries preceded by 1-line lombards, alternating gold on black flourishing and blue on red flourishing.

On fol. 1raan illumination, two doctors consulting in a columned portico, with a full vine and leaf border, primarily in blue and gold, with strawberries, roses, etc., and a 4-line blue and violet champe capital with vine and leaf design on gold leaf.

AT, no. 811 (81), associate the book with 'the style of Willem Vrelant ' (Bruges) and plate liii (fol. 1ra); they also cite his work from Lincoln College, MS Lat. 149; and Keble College MS 46 (nos. 812 and 813, ibid.).

Binding

Brown leather over millboards, s. xvii, lozenge stamp in the centre of both boards. Sewn on six thongs. ‘68’ in black ink on a paper lozenge in the upper spine compartment, on the leading edges in black ink between two parts of a vertical inscription, ‘Regimen Sanit’. No pastedowns, a College bookplate inside the upper board. At the front, fol. i is a strip of medieval vellum, followed by two modern paper flyleaves and a medieval vellum flyleaf; at the rear, two medieval vellum flyleaves, two modern paper flyleaves, and a companion strip of medieval vellum (fols. v–ix).

The outermost full vellum leaves appear to have been paste-downs in an earlier binding.

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Divi Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Domini Georgij BateMedicinae Doctoris ex Aula Sancti Edmundi’ ( fol. 2, upper margin). Alexander and Templesay he was physician to Charles II and d. 1669; noted in the Benefactors’ Book.

Provenance

‘Edward Hill’( fol. 1, lower margin, s. xv/xvi); ‘kat kat katheryne’( fol. vi, s. xvi in.); ‘These are in his we ’ (fol. viv, s. xvi, partly erased).

'Mr. Iohn Hill', 'Richard sedbury’, and perhaps other names in various states of erasure ( fol. iv, s. xvi).

Richard Heddington (twice, s. xvii in.), Charles Longland Sargh(s. xvii in.), a couple of further erasures and some pen-trials (fol. vi v).

An old shelfmark ‘Abac: ij. N. 64’ (inside upper board).