Gregory of Nazianzus, tr. Rufinus, Leidrad, Didymus Caecus of Alexandria, tr. Jerome, Pseudo-Cyprian, Pseudo-Ambrose, Jerome — ?1131 × 1140s; England
Jesus College MS. 3
Jesus College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gregory of Nazianzus, tr. Rufinus, Leidrad, Didymus Caecus of Alexandria, tr. Jerome, Pseudo-Cyprian, Pseudo-Ambrose, Jerome — ?1131 × 1140s; England
Shelfmark
Jesus College MS. 3
Place of origin
England
Date
?1131 × 1140s
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 135 leaves
Hands
Hand A: fols. 2r–127v, a medium-quality English protogothic hand of s. xii2/4. This hand also executed the rubrics, bar the incipit in blue ink on fol. 78v, which is by a near-contemporary.
Hand B: fols. 130r–136v or quire 16, a medium-quality English protogothic hand of s. xii2/3; the rubrics on fols. 130r and 135v are in this or a new hand.
Decoration
Fol. 2r: a green arabesque initial P, decorated in red and blue. The subsequent texts in the original unit (up to fol. 129) open with arabesque initials, with lesser or no decoration in one or two colours (red, blue, green). Fol. 135v: a red initial C, with a bearded face inside the lobe.
Binding
Romanesque. Whittawed skin over oak boards. The binding represents an English technique known from only a few manuscripts. Christopher Clarkson, ‘A Hitherto Unrecorded English Romanesque Book Sewing Technique’, in Roger Powell: The Compleat Binder, J. Sharpe (ed.), Bibliologia, vol. 14 (Turnhout, 1996), pp. 215–239.
Acquisition
Willed to Jesus College. Pressmarks: 91, ?15th cent. (spine); I Arch. I–3, 17th cent. (ink on paper); MS. Jesus Coll. E. 3, 19th cent. (printed on paper); fol. i recto: 2031 = 12, ?16th cent. (originally 12, the previous added); 1 Arch. 1–3, ?16th cent.; fol. 1r: numb 12, ?16th cent. Title on the cover, Gregor Nazien Opera, in a hand possibly appearing in Jesus College 2 as well.
Provenance
Cirencester Abbey (OSA). The book was recorded in the Registrum Angliae de libris doctorum et auctorum ueterum (R3.1; R18.2, 13, 14) in the fourteenth century and it appears in the list of the books of John Price’s donation to the College, an identification confirmed by the title on the cover in his hand.
John Price: a list contents in his hand (fol. ii verso). An identical book appears in Nomina Librorum Manuscriptorum ex Donatione Iohannis Prise Equitis Aurati Herefordiensis.
Gregory Price (1535–1600).
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