Glossed Gospels

Title

Glossed Gospels

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 9

Place of origin

France

Date

s. xiv/xv

s. xiii1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. ii + 253+ ii (numbered fols. iii and iv).

Hands

Written in two sizes of gothic textura quadrata, with rather club-headed tops to minims. The text is written below the top line, the gloss above it. Punctuation by point and occasional punctus elevatus.

Decoration

No headings. 12-line red and blue lombards on red flourishing at the heads of the books; alternating 1-line blue and red examples on flourishing of the other colour at the heads of chapters and some verse divisions.

Chapters marked by alternating blue and red roman numerals in the margin.

Running titles in alternate blue and red lombards with terminal flourishes in red and blue.

See AT no. 661 (66).

Binding

Brown reversed calf over millboards,? late s. xvii. Sewn on six thongs. A chain staple mark in Watson’sposition 6. Two pairs of cloth ties to close the book. At the top of the spine a gold ‘9’, and a fragment of a pasted paper label ‘45’ on the back cover. A College bookplate on the front pastedown. ‘Gloss in eua 9’, in black ink on the leading edges.

Two modern paper flyleaves at front and rear.

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Sancti Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Venerabilis virj Guilielmi Laud Sacre Theologiae Doctoris Ecclesiae Cathedralis Gloucest’ Decani et ejusdem Collegii Praesidis 1620’ (fol. 10). For Laud’s benefactions, see Hunt, 68 ; the MS appears as Laud Exhib. no. 9 (9).

Provenance

‘Est hic Liber Glossae Interlinearis in 4 or. Evangelia cum brevibus Commentis annexis’ ( fol. ii, s. xvii).