Terence, Comedies
St John's College MS 87
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Terence, Comedies
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 87
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xv med.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (FSOS/FHHF)
Physical extent
i + 134 (numbered fols. 1–132, ii, iii) + i (numbered fol. iv, pasted to a vellum stub, part of the original book),
Hands
Written in anglicana/secretary heavily influenced by humanistica. Punctuation by point and occasional punctus elevatus and virgula. The same scribe is responsible for our MS 84.
Decoration
No headings. All of the texts are presented as prose.
At the heads of each play, 4-line champes, often with natural scenes within the gold leaf capital.
Demivinets, with gold leaf and flowers at fols. 1 and 71; a floral border at fol. 92v, elsewhere floral sprays.
Texts and scenes introduced by 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing.
See AT, no. 611 (60).
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf; at the rear, one modern paper flyleaf (iv, sewn to the stub following iii).
Provenance
‘Sum Ben’ Jonsonij Liber’ (fol. 1 margin). Listed among his five MSS by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, Ben Jonson(Oxford: Clarendon, 1925), 1:262–3, along with our MS 192 .
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