Hugo de Sancto Caro, In Ezechielem; Oxford, England, 1453 or 1454?

Title

Hugo de Sancto Caro, In Ezechielem; Oxford, England, 1453 or 1454?

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 59

Place of origin

Oxford, England

Date

1453 or 1454?

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

199 leaves, preceded and followed by one 18th-century paper flyleaf

Hands

Written by Scribe 1 (William Salomon); see Watson, Exeter, pp. 85–87.

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.

On fol. 1r is an illuminated border incorporating Roger Keys’s arms.

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 eight bands. For other details see Watson, Exeter, p. 87.

Provenance

An inscription recording Roger Keys’s donation to the college, as in MS 53 and others, was probably on a discarded preliminary leaf. For 1453 or 1454 as the suggested date of writing see Watson, Exeter, pp. 85–87.

Exeter library identifications are: on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, and on it ‘173–F–9’, deleted and replaced by ‘213.E.10’, and ‘Coxe LIX’ (pencil).