Biblical books: Job, Acts, and the Catholic Epistles glossed
St John's College MS 8
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Biblical books: Job, Acts, and the Catholic Epistles glossed
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 8
Associated place
London
Place of origin
England
Date
s. xiv in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).
Physical extent
Fols. iii + 298 + ii(numbered fols. iv–v).
Hands
Written in gothic textura , a large display semiquadrataor prescissa for the text and a half-sized quadrata for the glosses. Punctuation by point and occasional punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Headings in red.
At the head of the books, 6- to 8-line red and blue lombards on flourishing and with extended bar borders of the same.
Similar initials of 3 and 4 lines at the heads of chapters.
Marginal chapter numbers in roman in alternate red and blue (guides for these generally survive).
Sections of the gloss introduced by large alternate red and blue paraphs; within the text, alternate 1-line red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
Running titles with book names in alternate red and blue lombards.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, a modern paper flyleaf, and a medieval vellum flyleaf, half a bifolium whose stub shows before it; at the rear, a modern paper flyleaf and another marbled paper leaf ( iv–v).
Acquisition
‘Liber Collegii Sancti Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Venerabilis virj Rich ButlerDoctoris Theologiae Archidiac’ Northampt procurante Reuerendo in Christo Patre Iohanne Episcopo Roffensis1613’ ( fol. 1; below, along the leading edge, a brief list of contents, identifying the work as ‘Hieronimi Commentarius’). For Butler as a College benefactor, see Hunt, 63 and 65.
Provenance
‘Ego Henr’ de Walton’ Archidiaconus Richemond Istum librum de vita Iob do lego et assigno Henr’ de Walton’scolari nepoti meo in proprietatem et dominium perpetuo possidend’ dat’ London’ xvjo die Iulij Anno domini Mlo CCC lixo’ (fol. iiiv); neither is in BRUO, but Walton’s service as archdeacon in York diocese 1349–59 is noted by John le Neve, ed. B. Jones, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 VI Northern Province (London, 1963) 25.
An erased ex-libris ‘Liber ecclesie nearly the full line gone dedit e’ (fol. 1, lower margin).
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