Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones; England, s. xiv2/4

Title

Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones; England, s. xiv2/4

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 2

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv2/4

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment HFFH

Physical extent

327 leaves numbered in modern pencil, preceded and followed by one 18th-century paper flyleaf.

Hands

Anglicana but with secretary a and g and both anglicana and secretary r. Punctuation is by low point and virgula.

Decoration

Illuminated bar-frame borders on fols. 1r and 220r, Alexander and Temple, no. 382, but not mutilated as they state although the border on fol. 1r is rubbed and damaged at the edges.

A six-line illuminated initial is at the beginning of both tables, and throughout there are rubrics, three-line blue lombards flourished red, and red and blue paraphs. Lemmata are underlined in red.

Binding

Sewn on five bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century.

Provenance

There are some 15th-century marginalia in crayon. It is not known when or how the book reached Exeter. It is recorded in neither Ecloga nor in CMA but may nevertheless have been in the College during the medieval period: see Introduction, pp. xxii–xxiii.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, on which is ‘173–H–11’. On the pastedown itself are ‘Ex: Coll: Oxon: Q6–2 Gall’ (deleted) and ‘Coxe Cat. no. 2’.