John de Turrecremata, De ecclesia
St John's College MS 74
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
John de Turrecremata, De ecclesia
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 74
Place of origin
Italy
Date
s. xv med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. The MS is written on oversized sheets folded in quarto(chain-lines are horizontal), the watermarks generally unrecoverable in the gutter of a thick and tightly bound volume. Exceptionally, the inner eight leaves of the second quire (fols. 12–19)have come loose from the binding; these, reinforced at the sewings with vellum strips from a MS of s. xiii , are formed from two sheets from the same paper stock: Horn: the mark closely resembles, but cannot be identical with, Piccard VII 10, nos. 81–4, 101–4, on oversized sheets but datable a good deal too early, 1420–1 (Padua and south Germany).
Physical extent
Fols. i + 420 (numbered fols. 1–419, but an unnumbered leaf follows fol. 213) + i (numbered fol. ii) .
Hands
Written in humanistic cursive . Punctuation by point, medial point, and punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Headings in red and in a more formal humanistica.
At initia, lombards, 10 lines at the head of the prologue, 4 lines at the heads of chapters, initially alternating red on black flourishing, blue on red flourishing (to fol. 67, sporadic later examples of the blue), the flourishing including leaf designs and heads; after fol. 156 , capitals universally unflourished and after fol. 286, none filled.
The text is divided by paraphs, alternating blue and red until fol. 88, thereafter either red only or unfilled, and ochre-slashed capitals.
Book numbers added later in lead as running titles.
Binding
Modern rebinding. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf; at the rear, another modern paper flyleaf (ii).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegii Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Venerabilis virj Guilielmj Laud Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris Ecclesiae Cathedralis Gloucest’ Decanj et Predictj Collegii Praesidis 1620’ ( fol. 1 , upper margin).
Provenance
‘Ihesus magister Iohannes de trecremata turrecremata ’ (fol. 1, partly cut away in the upper margin; anglicana, s. xv).
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