Thomas Aquinas, In Sententias liber IV; England, s. xiv1

Title

Thomas Aquinas, In Sententias liber IV; England, s. xiv1

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 44

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

343 leaves preceded and followed by an 18th-century paper flyleaf. From about fol. 220 leaves have been very badly damaged by damp at the top of the spine. Loss of text has occurred in the upper lines of inner columns.

Hands

Bastard anglicana by several scribes, some very good, some poor, also a gothic bookhand of academic type. Punctuated by low point.

Decoration

On fol. 1r a 5-line blue-and-red lombard, flourished red and extended in red and blue into a bar-frame border with mauve flourishing; 2-line blue lombards, some extended, flourished red, throughout; blue and red paraphs; lemmata underlined 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. Red leather label on spine with gold-stamped title. Endbands perhaps originally white and brown.

Provenance

Not known. Not recorded in Ecloga; but nevertheless probably in the College in the medieval period: see Watson, Exeter, Introduction, pp. xxii–xxiii. CMA, no. 34.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, ‘P8–13 Gall’ (deleted); ‘173–H–9’; ‘Ex: Coll: Oxon:’; the book stamp; ‘Coxe Cat. no. XLIV.’ On the spine is a round label with ‘9’ on it.