Patristic miscellany: Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Richard of St Victor, etc.

Title

Patristic miscellany: Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Richard of St Victor, etc.

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 206

Associated place

Oxford

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv in.

s. xiii2

ss. xiii and xiv

s. xiii/xiv

s. xiii2/2 or xiii ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF)

Physical extent

Fols. vii + 312+ iv (numbered fols. viii–xi).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated ‘1856’ on the verso), two modern paper flyleaves, two vellum stubs, and four medieval vellum flyleaves (a six-leaf quire with the first two leaves excised); at the rear, a medieval vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown), two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (viii–xi).

Provenance

A versus: ‘sicut ad omne quod est mensuram ponere prodest | sic sine mensura deparit omne quod est’ ( Walther, Sprichwörter, no. 29566; fol. viiivat the top; secretary s. xv 2).

‘Graunte tims sum’ (fol. 1, lower margin; in rubric); ‘Thomas Graunte’ (fol. 312v, lower margin; s. xv/xvi). See MS 171, which also bears his signature.

‘Liber Richardi Butler Rectoris de Aston in le Walles ex dono Mri Albani Butler senioris21 Decembris 1607’ ( fol. iv, below some erased material and indication of contents).

Extremely faded notes, written upside down (fols. vi–viiv).