Scientific and medical miscellany

Title

Scientific and medical miscellany

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 188

Associated place

Oxford

Canterbury

London

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xv med.

s. xiii med.–xiv in., s. xv med

s. xiii ex. and early s. xv? (additions to item 10)

s. xiii (text)

s. xiii ex.

s. xiii2

s. xiii/xiv

s. xiii med. or xiii 2 (item 10)

s. xv (additions)

s. xv (item 12)

s. xiii med.

s. xiv in.

s. xiii med. (item 11)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF, except MSS 4 and 7–8, HSOS/ HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 114+ i (numbered fol. iv).

Binding

Brown leather over bookboard, s. xvi, with a blind-stamped border, partly restored in the upper corner, perhaps suggesting a chain fitting removed. The rolls are Oldham MW.d(10) (no. 872, plate LI) , used alone by an Oxfordbinder 1560–1613. Sewn on four thongs. Gold ‘188’ at the head of the spine, very indistinct in black ink on the leading edges. All three edges reddened. Pastedowns old vellum, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, three vellum flyleaves from manuscript (the first has been used as a pastedown in an earlier binding, and the second and third are a bifolium); at the rear, a single vellum flyleaf from manuscript (iv).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Nicolaj Linnebyesocij 1605’ (fol. iiiv).

Provenance

‘Carrius me possidet’ (fol. 114, upper margin, s. xv/xvi) and ‘ Christoferus Carieus 20 Aug Cxo’ (partly cut off, fol. 114v, the first inscription repeated below in italic, s. xvi ex.); the same italic hand has added other pen-trials, and there are accounts for May and June of an unspecified year (s. xvi). For discussion, see Andrew G. Watson, ‘Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic Manuscripts, and “John Carye”, The Library5th ser. 20 (1965), 135–42 at 136–7, 142.

‘Nicolai LynnebyIoann Oxon’ (fol. 1, upper margin; and fol. 24).