Berengaud on the Apocalypse

Title

Berengaud on the Apocalypse

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 73

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xii med.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. v + 145+ iii (numbered fols. vi–viii).

Hands

Written in caroline, the main text by two scribes, the second beginning at the foot of fol. 109. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus.

Decoration

Widely dispersed red headings to set off the separate ‘visions’.

At fols. 1and 3, 8-line arabesque capitals in blue with green and touches of red and in green with blue and gold respectively.

At the start of the ‘visions’, 2-line arabesque capitals in red, green, and gold.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, one marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and two medieval vellum flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (vi–viii).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sancti Ioannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex Dono Magistri Ioannis Stonor de Northstoke in Comitatu Oxon ’ Generosi’ (fol. 1upper margin).

Provenance

‘Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading’ Qui eum celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit’ (fol. iv). Ker, MLGB158 ; Registrum R.49.2 (197), but not noting this copy.

Notes on the texts by R.T. and C.W., both librarians of St John’s, with particular attention to the author of the commentary, including explanations of the cryptogram identifying him at the explicit (fol. v).