William Woodford, De sacramento altaris;John of Wales, Summa justitiae (Tractatus de vitiis); etc.; England, s. xvin

Title

William Woodford, De sacramento altaris;John of Wales, Summa justitiae (Tractatus de vitiis); etc.; England, s. xvin

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 7

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xvin

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

220 leaves, preceded by two 18th-century paper leaves and followed by another. There is 15th-century numbering of chapters of item 2 and head-titles, and chapter numbers in item 6.

Hands

The original texts are in one good anglicana formata hand throughout, but using secretary a and occasional secretary r. Punctuation is by low point. The scribe is presumably the ‘Chyn:’ whose name is found on fol. 162r.

Decoration

On fol. 8 is a good illuminated border and initial, Alexander and Temple, no. 402.

Throughout there are 3/4-line blue lombards flourished red and blue and red paraphs. Lemmata are underlined in red.

Binding

Sewn on five bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century. Rust from a chain staple on a previous binding has made holes in the bottom centre of fols. 219–21, the stain being visible as far back as fol. 214v.

Provenance

Unknown. Recorded at Exeter c. 1600 as Ecloga, no. 11, then in CMA, no. 25.

Exeter library identifications, on the front pastedown, are bookplate 2 and ‘D2—19’, ‘Kg—Gall’, ‘Q6–7 MS’ (all deleted), ‘174–K–7’ altered to ‘174–I–7’, and ‘Coxe VII’ in pencil.