John Cassian, Collationes (selections)

Title

John Cassian, Collationes (selections)

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 183

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xii/xiii

Language

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF), rather uneven in quality, the leaves often short at the page foot.

Physical extent

Fols. iv + 86(numbered fols. 1–84, v, vi) + iii (numbered fols. vii–ix).

Hands

Written in transitional protogothic bookhand/gothic textura, above top line. Punctuation by pointonly.

Decoration

Alternating 2- and 3-line red and green arabesque initials at textual divisions.

Blanks for headings unfilled.

Binding

Modern rebinding. Sewn on five thongs. At the head, a marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and a medieval vellum flyleaf (a pastedown in an earlier volume); at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves, and another marbled leaf (vii–ix).

Acquisition

‘Johannes Whyte de Suthwyke in Comitatu Sutht Armiger dedit hunc librum Thome Whitede london’ ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon’ Anno 1555’ ( fol. 1 , upper margin).

Provenance

H lb [most of a line illegible]qui ab eadem abstulerit vel titulum istum dolo deleuerit aramatha fiat fiat amen’ (fols. 1v–2, the lower margin; anglicana, s. xiv in., mostly erased and not legible with ultraviolet). In spite of its erasure, plainly the ex-libris of Southwick Abbey (Hants.) (Ker, MLGB 181).

‘Liber continens verba Nestorotis abbatis et diditur diuiditur in 3. libros cum singulorum capitulis prenotatis’ (fol. iv, s. xv1, anglicana with secretary a); a further note here, of s. xvii, identifies the author and portions of his work.

‘vno tenemento de Farly’ (fol. vv; mixed anglicana/secretary, s. xv 2).

‘Sex sunt que odit dominus et septimum detestatur anima eius Oculos sullimes linguam mendacem’ ( fol. vi, a different hand contemporary with the preceding).

Pen-trials (fol. iv, s. xv ex.).