Hugo de S. Caro, In Jeremiam prophetam et Threnos Jeremiae; Oxford, England, 1452
Exeter College MS. 58
Exeter College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Hugo de S. Caro, In Jeremiam prophetam et Threnos Jeremiae; Oxford, England, 1452
Shelfmark
Exeter College MS. 58
Place of origin
Oxford, England
Date
1452
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment FHHF
Physical extent
190 leaves, preceded and followed by one 18th-century paper flyleaf.
Hands
Written by Scribe 1 (William Salomon). The script is gothic hybrida formata with high ascenders and low descenders in some top and bottom lines, the former with cadell-like flourishing, to which, however, Salomon is the least addicted of the three scribes involved in MSS 51–68.
Decoration
Of the same type as in MS 51 but by Artist A, for a characterization of whose work see Watson, Exeter, pp. 85–87.
Border on fol. 1r and spray initials throughout. Blue running titles in uncial, and marginal chapter numbers.
Binding
Stamped leather bindings over square-edged wooden boards, (presumably) rebound; stamp used was employed in Oxford between 1535 and 1621, here in the second phase state, probably c. 1605–10. Two straps held by nails. Refurbished in the 19th century (1839?): that volumes were resewn is indicated by the very tight binding, which makes collation difficult, and by the provision of new endbands; edges were stained red; book was reinforced by pasting long strips of canvas round the spine and attached to the boards, and the old spines were replaced. Sewn on seven bands. For other details see Watson, Exeter, p. 87.
Provenance
On fol. iv is ‘Hunc librum Hugonem de Vienna super Ieremiam 2º fo luc xvj M. Roger Keys ...’, as in MS 53; on fol. 190v, with the last line partly trimmed away, is ‘Liber Magistri Rogeri Keys scriptus Anno domini. Mmo ccccmo quinquagesimo secundo Oxon. per manum Willelmi Salomonis.’ DMO, no. 788, pl. 492, illus. part. fol. 33v.
Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, on which are ‘173–F–8’, deleted and replaced by ‘213.E.9’, and ‘Coxe LVIII’ (pencil).
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