Richard Rolle, Latin Psalter and Parce michi; Phillip Karmerlyn on the decretals; John of Sacro Bosco, De sphera; ‘Disticha Catonis’

Title

Richard Rolle, Latin Psalter and Parce michi; Phillip Karmerlyn on the decretals; John of Sacro Bosco, De sphera; ‘Disticha Catonis’

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 195

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv med. or ex

s. xv med

ss. xiv med.–xv 3/4

s.xv med

s. xv med.

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. i + 252(numbered 1–249, ii–iv) + i (numbered fol. v).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf (dated 1861); at the rear, a second modern paper flyleaf ( v).

Acquisition

Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Christophorj ColesArtis Bacchalaurej ejusdem Collegii conuictoris’ ( fol. 1 , vertically in the margin).

Provenance

‘Summa totalis libri’ (fol. iiiv, s. xv; some further s. xv pen-trials appear on fol. iv ).

‘I Emgere Wystemntame’ (fol. 249, upper margin, s. xv ex.; another illegible inscription of the same date appears on fol. ivv).

‘f Iames suthampton’ (fol. 79, upper margin, rubbed, s. xvi med.).

‘the lord be thanked for his geftis and mercies euermore and with his ever more and throwght his me you you to you per me thomas iones’ ( fol. 173v, apparently in the same hand as the preceding); Thomas Jonesalso signs upside down on fol. ivv, and below that ‘Thomas wyhene in lumbert stryt’ in Jones’s hand.

‘harry lythting is put ’ and below ‘He that in youth no will vse ’ (fol. ii, in script similar to the two preceding ones, again defaced).

A list of contents (fol. iiv, s. xvii).