Hugo de Sancto Caro, Comm. super Johannem; Oxford, England, 1456

Title

Hugo de Sancto Caro, Comm. super Johannem; Oxford, England, 1456

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 64

Place of origin

Oxford, England

Date

1456

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

184 leaves preceded by one 18th-century paper flyleaf and one membrane flyleaf, and followed by one 18th-century flyleaf.

Hands

Written by Scribe 1 (William Salomon); see MS 58, Script. In this volume Salomon’s use of cadells is like that in MS 63.

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.

Major decoration, a border, is on fol. 1r, but, probably for the sake of Keys’s arms of which only a tiny part remains, half of the bottom border and the whole outer border have been torn away.

Illuminated initials with sprays begin each chapter (that on fol. 4v was cut away) and there are rubrics, red and blue paraphs, blue running titles, and chapter number and lemmata underlined in red.

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. Boards have square edges. For other details see Watson, Exeter, p. 87.

Provenance

Fol. ii is a half-sheet on the verso of which is the long ex dono inscription found in many of Keys’s books given to Exeter College: see MS 53, History. His arms have been torn out of the border on fol. 1r: see Decoration above.

Exeter library identifications are bookplate 3 stuck on the front pastedown, on which are ‘173–H–4’, deleted and replaced by ‘213.G.3’, and ‘Coxe LXIV’ (pencil).