Theology: Hugh of Fouilly, Ralph of Battle, Bernard, Augustine

Title

Theology: Hugh of Fouilly, Ralph of Battle, Bernard, Augustine

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 130

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xv1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. iv + 188+ i (numbered fol. v).

Hands

Written in anglicana formata (with textura r and g, d variable). Punctuation by medial point (often with a tail) and punctus elevatus .

Decoration

Headings in red.

Decorated capitals at the heads of texts, most elaborately a 4-line blue capital on violet and gold leaf, with a crude demivinet with buds and a bird in the same colours (fol. 1; a demivinet with gold-leaf leaves and dragon on fol. 110v).

More usual elsewhere is a 4-line blue lombard with gold leaf on red flourishing, sometimes extended to a demivinet with bar border and flourish.

At minor divisions, 2-line blue lombards on red flourishing.

Red-slashed capitals break the text, in some texts red and blue 1-line lombards.

In some texts, running titles in either red or text ink.

See AT, no. 334 (34), dating the book s. xiv ex.and suggesting manufacture at St Albans .

Binding

Brown leather over millboards, s. xvii, with a stamped fillet. Sewn on five thongs. Nail-holes from a chain-staple in Watson’s position 6, as well as slits in both boards from cloth ribbons to close the book. Gold ‘130’ at the top of the spine, in black ink on leading edges with a note of contents ‘Hugo de Foliet…’ On the leading edge of the lower board a pasted paper tab with the old shelfmark ‘38’. Stamped gold dots on the leading edges of both boards and leading and bottom edges red-flecked. Pastedowns modern paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, four paper flyleaves; at the rear one paper flyleaf (v).

Preceding fol. 1, a fragment from the pastedown of an earlier binding, from a noted service book (one line only).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Diui Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Dominj Gulielmi Paddejmilitis et olim ejusdem Collegij Convictoris 1634’ (fol. iv vat the top; below this, s. xix notes on contents, ascribed by a former St John’s librarian to Miss P. M. Ireland).

Provenance

‘Hunc librumdedi t frater Henricus Wylum fratri Iohanni Bywellper licenciam domini Iohannis [? i.e., Whethamstede]abbatis Monasterii sancti Alb aniqui liber post mortem predicti fratris Iohannisremanebit in conuentu ciusdem dom cui propicietur ihesus cristus’ (fol. 188v, s. xv 1) (Ker MLGB130, 302 ; from the latter, the inscription was once more readily legible than now).

‘Hum.[?] Dyson’, perhaps Humphrey (fols. 13v, 33v, 36v, 188v, s. xvi 2).