Hugo de S. Caro, In apocalypsin; Anon., In apocalypsin; Oxford, England, 1456–7?

Title

Hugo de S. Caro, In apocalypsin; Anon., In apocalypsin; Oxford, England, 1456–7?

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 67

Place of origin

Oxford, England

Date

1456–7?

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment HFFH

Physical extent

165 leaves preceded and followed by one post-medieval paper flyleaf.

Hands

Written by Scribe 1 (William Salomon); see MS 58, Script. Elaborate cadell-like ascenders adorn top lines. Punctuation is by low point.

Decoration

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

There is an illuminated border on fol. 2r (and another was no doubt lost from before item 2); otherwise illuminated spray initials, blue running titles, red and blue paraphs, 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. For other details see Watson, Exeter, p. 87.

Provenance

On the verso of fol. 1v, once a half-sheet but extended to full size, is ‘Hunc librum Hugonem de Vienna super apocalipsim 2º fo manifeste predicit [sic, but it is not] M. Rogerus Keys ...’; see MS 53, History. Keys’s arms are in the border on fol. 2r and on fol. 165v, in the scribe’s hand, is ‘Iste liber constat magistro Rogero Keys’.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, and on it ‘173.H.7’, deleted and replaced by ‘213.G.6’, and ‘Coxe LXVII’ (pencil). On fol. 1r is ‘M.6.6. vol. 17’ (pencil, s. xixin?). On fol. 1r is ‘Liber Coll: Exon.’ (s. xvi/xvii?).