Hugo de S. Caro, et al., In epistolas Sancti Pauli; In epistolas canonicas; Oxford, England, 1463/4

Title

Hugo de S. Caro, et al., In epistolas Sancti Pauli; In epistolas canonicas; Oxford, England, 1463/4

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 66

Place of origin

Oxford, England

Date

1463/4

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

281 leaves, preceded by one post-medieval paper flyleaf and one medieval membrane half-sheet and followed by one post-medieval paper flyleaf

Hands

Written by Scribe 2; see MS 53, Script.

Decoration

Of the same type as MS 51 but by Artist C, for a characterization of whose work see Watson, Exeter, pp. 85–87.

On fols. 1r, 238v, 250v, and 274v, are 8- and 10-line illuminated initials. The same artist probably did sprays in Oxford, New College, MS 288 (Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, no. 114). At the beginning of some chapters are 3-line gold initials on a pink and blue coloured base with white tracery. There are red and blue paraphs and lemmata underlined 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. For other details see Watson, Exeter, p. 87.

Provenance

On fol. iiv, a medieval half-sheet, is the same Keys ex dono inscription as in other manuscripts in this group; see MS 53, History. Keys’s arms are in the lower part of the border on fol. 1r.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, and on it ‘173–H–6’ deleted and replaced by ‘213.G.5’, and ‘Coxe LXVI’ in pencil.