Joshua and Judges glossed

Title

Joshua and Judges glossed

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 21

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

Fols. iv + 84 + iii (numbered fols. v–vii).

Hands

Written in two sizes of a hand transitional between protogothic bookhand and gothic textura, the gloss above the top line, the text below it. Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

Neither rubrics nor chapter divisions (in Judges, chapter numbers added in black ink later).

At the heads of the texts, 6- or 7-line initials: lions and other animal shapes in the vine-work of a violet and blue champe on a midnight blue and gold ground.

Alternate red and blue 1- line lombards for versals.

The glosses, in the main marginal, introduced by paraphs in text ink.

Running titles in alternate red and blue lombards with the name of the biblical book.

See AT no. 147 (17) and plate viii (fol. 1rb).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, and a medieval vellum flyleaf; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (fols. v–vii).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Divi loannis Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono Magistri Ioannis Stonor Generosi de Northstoke in Comitatu Oxon 1609’ (fol. 1).

Provenance

‘Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading’ Quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit’, ‘Quem qui celauerit uel’ above in a later hand (fol. iv) (Ker, MLGB 158).

A few pen-trials (fol. iv).