Jerome — 15th century, c. 1450–1460 (?); English

Title

Jerome — 15th century, c. 1450–1460 (?); English

Shelfmark

MS. Don. e. 128

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century, c. 1450–1460 (?)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (paper) + I (original parchment) + 256 + I (original(?) parchment), + iii (paper).

Hands

Written by Robert Flemmyng (see under Provenance) in Italian humanistic script

Decoration

Headings in pink.

One four-line 'puzzle' initial in red and blue to the first initial (very similar to that in Oxford, St. John's College, MS. 5, also owned by Flemmyng); plain blue two-line initials to subsequent letters.

Binding

Sewn on five(?) cords, and bound in 18th(?)-century speckled brown polished leather over pasteboards, the covers undecorated; the spine tooled in gilt with foliate designs, and with a red and a green leather titlepiece, tooled in gilt, respectively, 'EPISTLÆ | SCTI | HIERONYMI' and 'VOL: I | M. S.'; marbled endpapers; the joints cracked.

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian through Sotheby's by private treaty, in memory of R. W. Hunt, and paid for with the help of donations from his friends, 1980.

Provenance

Copied, probably in England, in humanistic script by Robert Flemmyng, one of the first English scholars to learn to write 'humanistic' script, and nephew of the founder of Lincoln College; perhaps given by him to Lincoln College after 1474 (since it does not appear in the Lincoln catalogue of that date) and later alienated.

The set of two or three volumes was presumably still together when the present spine-title was lettered in the 18th(?) century.

Thomas Weld of Lulworth castle: with his bookplate; for the later history of the Weld manuscripts see Eric George Millar, The Luttrell Psalter: two plates in colour and one hundred and eighty-three in monochrome from the Additional manuscript 42130 in the British Museum (London, 1932), 7–8.