diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_128.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_128.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..36f14d52aa --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_128.xml @@ -0,0 +1,484 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 128 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_128 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 128 + + John Scotus Eriugena, translation of the ps.-Dionysian corpus + + Latin + + Fols. 1–4: + Praephatio ANASTASII apostolicȩ sedis bybliothecarii ad + excellentissimum et cristianissimum regem karolum + Inter cȩtera stvdia que tam laudabilis actio quam saluberrima + commonitio + deus omnipotens gloriam tuam a terreno ad cȩleste transferat regnum + quandoque Explicit Datus x. Kalendis aprilis Indictione viij + The preface to the ps.-Dionysian corpus, ed. PL + 122:1026–30. + + + Fol. 4: +

‘Hanc libam sacro grȩcorum nectare fartam | Aduena Iohannes spondo meo + karolo—crescere flores | Nodosȩ uitis sumitur una ferax’.

+

JOHN SCOTUS ERIUGENA + (Sharpe, no. 876 [311–12]), verse preface to the + ps.-Dionysian corpus, ed. PL 122:1029–30.

+ + + + Fols. 4v–8: + Gloriosissimo catholicorvm regvm karolo Iohannes extremus sophyȩ + stvdentivm saluvtem Valde quidem admiranda dignisque uirtutum tamen laudibus + exaggeranda catholicorum uirorum + et in ea et ad eam creata sunt per excellentiam essentiae + recurrere + ERIUGENA + the prefatory letter to the ps.-Dionysian corpus, ed. PL + 122:1031–6. + + + Fol. 8rv: + In hoc libro sancti DYONISII ARIOPAGYTE continentvr libri iiiior. Quos IOHANNES ERIVGENA transtulit + + Lumine sydereo dyonisius auxit athenas | Ariopagytes magnificusque + sophos + dicta docent | Arxon arxagelon te xoron agelon te + telauton + ERIUGENA + a further verse preface, ed. PL 122:1057–8. Followed + (fols. 8v-9) by a list of chapters. + + + Fols. 9–52v: + DYONISII HARIOPAGITAE [the H later] + episcopi athenarum ad tymothevm epistolam de celesti iherarchia Epygramma in + beatum DYONISIUM de cȩlesti Iherarchia + Angelicȩ sapientiȩ fulgores multos in hominibus manifestati + Capitvlvm primvm Quod omnis divina illvminatio secvndum bonitatem + [fol. 9v, the text:] Omne datvm optimvm + et omne donvm perfectvm desvrsvm est descendens a patre lvminvm + pretermisimus commensurationis sermonis prouidentes et super nos + secretum silentio honorificantes Angelicarvrn descriptionvm illvminationes + defvdisti hominibus + DIONISII ARIOPAGITAE episcopi [as the + initial rubric] + PS.-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE + The pseudo-Dionysian corpus +

Translated by ERIUGENA; ed. + [P. Chevallier], Dionysiaca: Recueil donnant l’ensemble + des traductions latines des ouvrages attribués au Denys + l’Aréopage, 2 vols. (Bruges and Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, + 1937–50), 2:727–1039 (the text identified as ‘E’). With + extensive glosses.

+

Rodney M. Thomson, ‘The Reading of William of Malmesbury: Further + Additions and Reflections’, Revue bénédictine 89 + (1979), 313–24 at 318–19 states that all known English + collections of the Dionysian corpus are based upon our copy and share its + contents.

 + + + Fols. 52v–110v: + Epygramma in beatum DYONISIUM In hoc de ȩcclesiastica hierarchia + Symbola diuinorum mirabilium sacrorurn vniformatione DYONISII ARIOPAGITȨ episcopi athenarum ad Tymotheum episcopum ephesi de + ȩcclesiastica hierarchia. + [fol. 53, the text] Qvia qvidem secundum + nos hierarchia pverorvrn | [fol. 53v] + diuinorum sacratissime intenta + que dicta sunt ego repositos in te diuini ignis ascendens usque + uapores DYONISII ARIOPAGTȨ episcopi [as the initial + rubric] + PS.-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE + Ed. Chevalier, 2:1072–1476. Between the rubric and the text, + a contents table. + + + Fols. 110v–87: + Epygramma in beatum DYONISIUM de diuinis nominibus + In animam splendor in diuinas scripturas + DYONISII ARIOPAGTȨ episcopi athenarum ad tymothevm episcopvm ephesi de + divinis nominibus. + [fol. 111v, the text] Nunc autem o beate + post teologicos characteres in diuinorum nominum replicationem + [fol. 186v] uocabulis secundum nos + finis quoniam symbolicam theologiam duce deo transcendimus + DYONISII ARIOPAGITȨ episcopi | [as the initial rubric] + Tuam mentem irrigans dyonisi flventis Pavli Ȩterni fulgoris + diuinitatis totum radivm + PS.-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE + Ed. Chevallier, 1:5–561. Between the rubric and the text, a contents + table. + + + Fols. 187–92: + Epygramma in beatum DYONISIUM in hoc de mystica theologia + Nouam claritatem in reliqua et scientiam subsistentium et sensum + Eiusdem ad tymotheum episcopum de mystica theologia + Comperto tymotheo dyonisivs presbiter + [fol. 187v, the text] + Trinitas superessentialis et svperdeus et superoptime + cristianorvm inspector theosophiae Dirige nos + super omnem ablationem excellentia omnium simpliciter perfectione et + summitas omnium + PS.-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE + Ed. Chevallier, 1:565–602. Preceding the rubric, a contents table. + + + + Fols. 192–216: + DYONISII ARIOPAGITAE episcopi athenarum de mystica theologia eivsdem + epistolae diversae in caliginem + Gaio monacho de propria mansuetudine et + bonitate Tyto summo sacerdoti interroganti per epistolam que sapientiȩ domus + + [fol. 192v, the text] Tenebrȩ quidem obscvrȩ + fiunt lumini et magis multo lumini Ignorantiam occultant + euerteris et operaberis ibi optimi dei imitationes et his qui tecum + sunt trade + Expletae sunt decem epistolȩ DYONISIJ ARIOPAGITAE + PS.-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE + Ed. Chevalier, 1:605–69, 2:147–1578, here in a thematic order. Between + the rubric and the text, a contents table. + + + Fol. 216rv: + POLYCRATI svccessoris archiepiscopi ephesi ex epistola ad uictorem + succes | [fol. 216v] sorem archiepiscopum + megalȩ + Etenim per asiam magna elementa dormiunt quȩ resurgent nouissima + die + est sacerdos petalum ferens et martyr et magister ipse in epheso + dormit + POLYCRATUS OF EPHESUS + Epistle + CPG 1338?, but the text is not equivalent to that ed. Theodor Mommsen, + GCS 9, 1 (1903), 490–3. Other copies appear at Lyons, BM, MS + 598, fol. 112; and Troyes, BM, MS 802, fol. + 225. + + + Fols. 216v–19 + CLEMENTIS presbiteri alexandriae ducis scholae ex superscripto suo + sermone qvis salvatvs dives + Vt avtem confidas sic pȩnitens uere quia tibi manet salutis spes + digne + Veram et magnam notitiam Iterum generationis tropheum resurrectionis + conspicuȩ + CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA + Quis diues saluetur + CPG 1379, but this version apparently unpublished; cf. par. 42, ed. + PG 9:647–52 (with modern Latin translation only). There is + also a copy in Troyes, BM, MS 802, at fol. 225v. + + + Fols. 219–21v: + Hvivs hystoriae meminit EVSEBIUS Phylonis de + excircvmcisione credentibus in ȩgypto cristianis simvl et monachis ex + suprascripto ab eo sermone de vita theorica aut de orantibvs + Mvltiplex quidem orbis terrarum est genus Oportebat enim optimum + perfectum + [fol. 221] ad ȩcclesiam athenarum et | + et losebius pamphyli in ȩcclesiastica hystoria + Finitus est cvm deo liber DYONISIJ ARIOPAGITAE de aecclesiastica + hierarchia + EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA + CPG 3495; cf. the Ruffinian + translation, here at best paraphrased, ed. Theodor Mommsen, + GCS 9, 1 (1903) 145/15–151/21. + + + Fols. 221v–7: + Incipit liber + be + beati + METHODI episcopi aecclesiae patherenis et martyris cristi de + principio seculi et inter regna gentivm et de fine sȩculorum + Sciendvm nanque est nobis fratres karissimi quomodo in principio + creauit deus cȩlum + impii sine fine pȩnam patientur Vnde nos dominus eripere dignetur qui + cum deo patre [form ending] Amen + PS.-METHODIUS + 'Apocalypsis' + cf. the version ed. Ernst Sackur, Sibyllinische Texte und + Forschungen (Halle a. S., 1898), 60–96; the version of + our MS has been printed by Charlotte D’Evelyn, ‘The Middle English + Metrical Version of the Revelations of Methodius’, + PMLA 33 (1918), 135–203 at 192–203. See also + Otto Prinz, ‘Eine frühe abendländische Aktualisierung der + lateinischen Übersetzung des Pseudo-Methodios’, Deutsches Archiv + für Eforschung des Mittelalters 41 (1985), 1–23. This + copy, as also those of MSS + 135 and 182, appears in Aaron James Perry’s list of copies, + Dialogus ..., EETS 167 (1925), p. xli. + + + Fols. 227–37: + Incipit opusculvm BEDAE presbiteri impense docti de locis sanctis de + sitv hiervsalem + | [fol. 227v] Situs vrbis hiervsalem + pene in orbem circumactus non paruo + [fol. 236v] otio lasciui corporis sed + lectionis orationisque studio tibi temporare satagas + BEDE + 'De locus sanctis' + CPL 2333, ed. J. Fraipont, CC 175 (1965), 252–80. Only three lines have + been written on fol. 237, and the remainder of the book is blank (fol. xviiv + is ruled). + + + +

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+ + + Vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. xv + 239 (numbered fols. 1–237, + xvi, xvii) + iv (numbered fols. xviii–xxi). + 228 + 135 + + + A fifteenth-century foliation in arabic numerals, in which fols. + 1–237 = 1–233 (fols. 129 and 179 unnumbered, 132 and 136 + repeated). + 1–298 + 308(–7, a stub; 1 and 8 now singletons, + a stub after fol. xvii, perhaps the original anchoring of that leaf to + fol. 233). + No catchwords. + All quires signed at the centre of the last + verso, in red ‘QUATERNUS I.’ etc. Quires 1–30 = I–XXX. + + +

In varying formats:

+

Fols. 1–9v: writing area + 167 + 85 + . In long lines, 28 lines to the page.

+ + Fols. 10–221v: in text and gloss + column format, ruled for a text column + 163 + 55 + and a gloss column along the leading edge + 163 + 39–46 + In long lines, 30 lines to the page for the text; the gloss + sometimes extends beyond it, to the point of being occasionally cut off + at the top of the page, in those portions paralleling the text, 49 lines + to the page. + Fols. 221v–xviiv: writing area + 167 + 95 + . In long lines, 31 lines to the page. Infrequent prickings; + bounded and ruled in stylus and brown crayon. + + + + Written in caroline by a variety of scribes, with frequent shifts among + them. Punctuation usually by point only, but + one scribe, responsible for fols. 97–143, shows a very large repertoire: + point, middle + point, high point, punctus interrogativus, and punctus versus (many examples of this mark + later corrections). + + + Headings in red, usually in rustic + capitals. + The introductory quire and the head of the first + main text elaborately polychromatic with alternating lines of red, blue, and + green ink at incipits. + The last two texts are headed by 6-line arabesque + initials in red and green, the second with a later head drawn in. + At minor divisions, red, blue, green, purple, and + gold 1- and 2-line arabesque initials, without flourishing but sometimes a + dot of a contrasting colour. + On fol. 9v at the head of the first text, a + 7-line O containing Christ nimbed, standing on the heads of two dragons, + holding a Greek cross and a book. + Some later initia were to receive similar treatments + but are now either blank (fol. 187v) or were filled in later (fols. 53, + 111v). + See AT, no. 11 (4) and plate ii (fol. + 9v). + + + +

Brown leather over wood, s. xv ex., with stamps associable with ‘the Floral Binder’, active in Oxford 1477–96; + see Oldham, 22–3. The punches are Oldham, plate xviii, nos. + 167 and 173. Graham Pollard identifies ‘the Floral Binder’ with a + Thomas Uffington of Oxford in ‘The Names of Some + English Fifteenth-Century Binders’, The Library 5th + ser. 25 (1970), 193–218 at 210. Sewn on five thongs, taken + straight into the board and staggered, as in Pollard’s figure + 4. Remains of seats for straps and clasps. Gold ‘128’ at the + head of the spine, in black ink on the leading edge, along with + indication of contents (s. xvii): ‘Dionys Areopag Hierarch | Bemen ..... + | Beda ..... ‘ and the old shelfmark ‘L iii’. Pastedowns old vellum, + blank; a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, fifteen + vellum flyleaves (most early modern, the last two certainly medieval); at + the rear; four more medieval vellum flyleaves (xviii–xxi), of which the + first three are the first three leaves of a quire, but fol. xxi single, + pasted to the rear pastedown. On the back pastedown a note of repairs ‘by + Mr. Fifield of the Bodleian Library 4 October 1968’.

+ + + + + + s. xii + in. + + England + + + ‘aquilonali parte Autem’ (fol. xviiv, + s. xii3/4, perhaps the opening of a + text?). + Washed additions in a later hand + (fols. xix, xxv, xxi, s. xiii ex.). + A contents list with only three + items, all the ps.-Dionysian items a single entry (fol. xvv, s. xiv in.). + Pen-trials, including + ‘honorificabilitudinitatibus’ (twice) (fol. xxiv, all s. xv in.). + ‘2° fo predicti patris’ (the front + pastedown, s. xv). + Initial entries for an index (fols. + i–ii, s. xv/xvi). + Notes on contents (the rear + pastedown, s. xvi in.). + Notes by WHS, 5 May 1916, on the book, with the old + shelfmark ‘Abac: ij N°. 11’ (the front pastedown). + ‘Liber Collegii Sancti Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono + Johannis Marsham eiusdem Collegij + Convictoris 1621’ (fol. 2, upper margin). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G., and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + [Chevallier, P.], Dionysiaca: Recueil donnant l’ensemble des + traductions latines des ouvrages attribués au Denys l’Aréopage, 2 + vols. (Bruges and Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1937–50), 2:727–1039 (the text + identified as ‘E’). + D’Evelyn, Charlotte, ‘The Middle English Metrical Version of the + Revelations of Methodius’, PMLA 33 (1918), + 135–203 at 192–203. + Fraipont, J. (ed.) Beda Venerabilis, De locis sanctis, + Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 175 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1965) + Guérard, Maurice, Clavis patrum graecorum, 5 vols. and + supplement (Turnhout, 1983-98). + Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Patrologia Latina 122 (Paris, + 1853). + Oldham, J. Basil, English Blind-Stamped Bindings + (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952). + Perry, James (ed.), Dialogus ..., EETS 167 (1925). + Pollard, Graham, ‘The Names of Some English Fifteenth-Century Binders’, + The Library 5th ser. 25 (1970), 193–218. + Prinz, Otto, ‘Eine frühe abendländische Aktualisierung der lateinischen + Übersetzung des Pseudo-Methodios’, Deutsches Archiv für Eforschung + des Mittelalters 41 (1985), 1–23. + Sackur, Ernst (ed.), Sibyllinische Texte und Forschungen + (Halle a. S., 1898), 60–96 + Schwartz, Eduard, and Theodor Mommsen, Eusebius Werke II. + (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1903). + Sharpe, Richard, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain + and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval + Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). + Thomson, Rodney M., ‘The Reading of William of Malmesbury: Further + Additions and Reflections’, Revue bénédictine 89 (1979), + 313–24 at 318–19 + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_134.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_134.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23ebb22801 --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_134.xml @@ -0,0 +1,514 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 134 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_134 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 134 + + Sermons, mainly Geoffrey of St Thierry + + Latin + + Fols. 4–11: + De Sancto Iohanne baptista + Fuit homo missus a deo et cetera Iohannes iste cuius hodierne + natiuitati catholica deuotius applaudit + uigor est uirium consummatio uirtutum bonis adquirens gloriam + uirtutibus coronam + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 11–14: + De sanctis apostolis petro et paulo + Petrus apostolus et paulus Gloriosa nobis + sollempnitas illuxit quam preclari martires martirum duces + iudicem nostrum qui singularis dominus et specialis est amicus + ipsorum cui debetur honor et gloria + GEOFFREY OF ST THIERRY + sermo 14 + unpublished (Schneyer, 2:159–64). + + + Fols. 14–18: + De quatuor fontibus saluatoris + Haurietis aquas in gaudio Adam in paradiso + conditus est ubi erant delicie et fructus + fortitudo est posse penuriam pati uel quelibet aduersa propter + iusticiam + Other copies appear at Worcester Cathedral MS Q20, fol. + 20; South Bend, Ind., University of Notre Dame MS + 9, fol. 40. + + + + Fols. 18–19v: + De quatuor generibus hominum + Habenti dabitur ei autem qui non habet │ + [fol. 18v] Videndum est de temporalibus + istis sicut et diuitiis et huiusmodi + felicitatis Adepturi in futuro ueritatem et cumulum superne + iocunditatis + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 19v–21v: + De martyribus + Qvi uoluerit animam suam saluam facere perdet eam Quid hic uos dicitis + obseruatores ciborum morum neglectores ypocritas et sequaces + placet de bibendo uino modico quod ille adiunxit non + pretermittas + Another copy appears at St-Mihiel, BM, MS 31, fol. + 130v. + + + Fols. 21v–4v: + In Rogationibus + Timuit helias iezabel Helias qui solaris uel + fortis dominus interpretatur Hoc loco quemlibet conuersum + Et postea in corde meo non nostro quia singularis est + gracia + GEOFFREY + sermo 49 + + + Fols. 24v–6v: + De tribus fidelium generibus et tribus panibus + Tribus fidelium generibus qui sunt incipientes proficientes perfecti + Tripartita trium panum debetur refeccio + pregustio future glorie que debetur ab eterno + exquirentibus domini in ueritate + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 26v–34: + In xla. uel in Rogationibus + Erat Naaman uir fortis Ecce parietem + hystorie Folia uerborum proposuimus fodite parietem + uetustate primi hominis conformatur cristo de quo dicitur puer natus + est nobis + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 34–9: + Item in xla. siue [later] in Rogationibus + Heliseus ad mortuum suscitaturus puerulum + Attendant hystorie figuram nescientes excitentur scientes + arguantur negligentes + os deum nominauit quod et uocatum est ab angelo priusquam in utero + conciperetur + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 39–41: + De pasione domini + Passurus in carne dei filius consilii secretioris altitudinern xijcim. suis commisit quos de milibus + argui et dampnari ad seculos corripi et liberari Ad tercios laudari + et saluari + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 41–3v: + De humilitate xi. + Qvid tam purum quid ne tam solidum quam humilitas cordis Merito uero + humilibus datur gratia + glorientur contumeliam gloriam reputantes obprobrium gaudium + dispensationem exaltationem + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 43v–6v: + In annuntiatione beate marie virginis + Redemptionem misit dominus populo suo + Desiderate plurimum a pluribus et a diebus antiquis expectate + diuinis + gratiam consequamur et auxilium in tempore oportuno adiuuante spiritu + sancto + GEOFFREY + sermo 53 + + + Fols. 46v–54v: + In assumptione beate marie virginis + Locuturus uobiscum de regina celi domina mundi genitrice dei nostri + tremore prorsus + preelecta et preparata altissimi filio qui es super omnia deus + benedictus in secula amen + GEOFFREY + sermo 54 + + + Fols. 54v–9v: + In Natiuitate beate marie uirginis + Fecit salomon thronum de ebore hinc itaque + uide Non factum tale opus in uniuersis regnis + ad hunc tota affeccione suspiret ut eius gratiam inueniamus in + tempore oportuno + GEOFFREY + sermo 55 + + + Fols. 59v–65: + In purificatione beate marie virginis + Dies iste uere sollemnis multimoda refulget + gaudiorum priuilegia quot portat et continet misteriorum celestium insignia + Quatuor itaque sunt festiuis attollenda + regina Clemens gratie sue munera largiatur ihesus cristus filius + tuus + GEOFFREY + sermo 56 + + + Fols. 65–6v: + Item In purficatione beate marie + Speciosus forma pre filiis hominum Glorificetur deus a nostra omnium + paruitate qui in retroactis euitino festiuitatibus + uoce et opere ad salutem nostram et ad eius gloriam + promerendam + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 66v–9: + In die cinerum + Induite uos armatura dei Milicia est fratres + uita hominis super terram Quamdiu hic uiuimus + In his enim feliciter [marg.] consummatus superne ierusalem ciuis ascribi + promeretur + GEOFFREY + sermo 56 + Also appears as BARTHOLOMEW OF + EXETER + (Sharpe, no. 148 [69–70]), sermon + 141, in BodL, + MS Bodley 449, which is apparently Bartholomew’s own book; and, + with an ascription to ALANUS DE + ANGLIA, in BN, MS lat. 18172 + (cf. Sharpe, nos. 73 and 77 [32, 33–4]). + + + Fols. 69–73: + Item In initio xle + de aptitudine solitudinis [later] + Ibimus in uiam trium dierum etc. Tracta sunt uerba ista de contexione + historiali quem legitur in exodo + ad hoc suadendum et utinam quod suadent deo miserante + persuadeant [later] + + GEOFFREY + sermo 48 + + + Fols. 73–8: + De tribus sacrificiis que deus a nobis requirit + Introibo in domum tuam in holocaustis et cetera Ecce propheta qui erat + intimus et concius secretorum dei sui + dicit propheta Vt uiderem uirtutem tuam et gloriam tuam Ad quam nos + perducat et cetera + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 78–79: + De tribus que trahunt ad mortem et de tribus que deus ad salutem + nostram in nobis et de nobis mirabili operatur + Erue nos in mirabilibus tuis domine deus noster Tria sunt que nos + trahunt ad mortem superfluus amor nostri + quod legitur in apostolo Glorificate et portate deum in corpore + nostro + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 79–80: + De. iiijor. que Jidelis anima debet + creatori suo + Fidelis anima quatuor debet creatori suo timorem et reuerenciam + fiduciam et amorem Nec tamen omnibus est dicere + que una rerum omnium summa est indissolubiliter faciat + adherere + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 80–5: + In passione domini de iiijor. + crucibus + Qvi uult uenire etc. Ecce fratres ecce illud dignissimum ecce istud + salubre consilium + desideratis agni nuptiis reuerenter ad salutem animarum et corporum + interesse + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 85–90: + Ad religiosos [corr. + later] + Obsecro uos fratres per misericordiam dei + Tria sunt fratres nostri que professores sacre religionis hominibus + imitabiles + tenere que diximus Neglecta minantur mortem transgressoribus uitam + adquirunt obsequentibus + Also appears in Hereford Cathedral, MS Piii.5, + fols. 188v–90, another MS with a collection including material from + GEOFFREY. + + + Fols. 90–6v: + De septem uiciis xxiiii + Dixit inimicus persequatur Uerba sunt + antiqui serpentis que sapiunt uenenum peruersitatis diabolice + ad sublimitatem angelorum per ordinatas ascensiones homo reducitur et + hec est perfeccio + Unidentified. + + + Fols. 96v–101: + De ciuibus babilonie xxv + Qvamdiu hic sumus peregrinamur a domino Ecce quid dicit ecce quid + plangit uas eleccionis doctor egregius moralis phiosophus + summa felicitas ad quam suspirat et utinam periungat nostre + paruitatis humilitas + GEOFFREY + sermo 3 + + + Fols. 101v–6: + Infesto cuiuslibet marthiris + Gloria et honore c. e. d. Dies iste festiuus splendorem multimode + pretendit alacritatis [corrected + later] supersacratiore memoria et triumphali martiris + dum peregrinamur minuendo preces pro nobis fundant qui triumphant in + celo + Unidentified. + + + Fol. 106rv: + In publica discussione futuri iudicii tria sunt ante iudicem + proferenda in quibus potent esse clipeus + profiteri potent tolletur dampnandus cum impiis ne uideant gloriam + dei + Sermo 84 in an anonymous + collection, Brussels, Bibliotheque royale, MS 124 + (Schneyer, 8:225). + + + Fols. 106v–7: + De quatuor doloribus + Quatuor sunt dolores duos mali patiuntur in morte Primus dolor + angustia corporalis + Nota preoccupauerunt me antequam de corpore exeat festinant ut + deuorent + Sermo 89 of the Brussels MS + (Schneyer 8:226). + + + Fols. 107–12v: + De natiuite domini + Series amabilis contextio dulces in qua fructus appetibilis quem + proponit uniuersitati fidelium + que paucorum est a nobis exigit et acceptat plurimum dominus deus + noster + GEOFFREY + sermo 39 + + + Fols. 112v–19v: + Item de natiuite domini + Uenite et uidete opera domini et cetera Magna sunt et exquisita ualde + uniuersa opera domini Magna inquam + quam depositum est preciosissimum ut ibi [marg.] cor habeant ubi est thesaurus + eorvm + GEOFFREY + sermo 17 + The remainder of the book is blank; fol. iv is bounded and ruled. + + + Added text: + + fols. 2–3v: + Sermo beati augustini episcopi In annuntiauione sancte Marie + virginis + Thalamos marie et secreta coniugia quibus gabriel paranimphus + interfuit + in sponsalibus tante uirginis et tante matris non exultant insuper + et insultant + PS.-AUGUSTINE + Sermon + ed. PL suppl. 4:1993–5. Fol. 1 has a table + of contents for the subsequent sermons, not including this added one. + Fols. 1–3 are an added quire, 14 (–1). + + + + +

-uationem pudori (fol. 3)

+ + + Vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. iii + 121 + (numbered 1–119, iv, v) + iv (numbered fols. vi–ix). + 230 + 165 + + + 155–60 + 110 + + + [Fols. 4–119, iv, v] 1–68 78 (–6 + apparently a cancel with no text loss) 8–148 158 (–8, blank). + Catchwords towards the gutter at the ends of quires + 8–14; + quires 1–3, 5–7 signed on the last verso with a + roman numeral, I–VII. + + + Written in long lines, 25 lines to the page. + Prickings rare; bounded and ruled in brown crayon. + + + + Written in protogothic + bookhand, above top line. Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus, punctus interrogativus, and occasional punctus versus. + + + Headings in red. + Three-line blue lombards with red flourishing (for + the first text, a 3-line capital in red, unflourished). + Red-slashed capitals to divide the + texts. + Running titles indicating the homily number, to + ‘xxvi.’ on fol. 105. The correction mark ‘cor’ centred at the foot of each + page. + + + +

Modern rebinding. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf + and two paper flyleaves; at the rear, one medieval vellum flyleaf + (probably a former pastedown), two modern paper flyleaves, and another + marbled paper leaf (vi–ix).

+ + + + + + s. xiii in. + + England + + + ‘Hic liber est ecclesie beati + Thome martiris de liesnes [i.e. Lessness] Quem qui ei abstulerit + aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit nisi eidem ecclesie plene satisfecerit + anathema sit Maranatha fiat fiat amen’ (fol. 2, upper margin; ‘Lienus’ also in + the margin, fol. 65) (Ker, MLGB 114). + + Four quotations, from Aristotle, Bonaventura, Gregory (<title>Moralia 5), and Augustine (fol. v; mixed anglicana/secretary s. xv + ex.). + Pen-trials (fols. vv and vi, s. + xv). + ‘Liber Collegii Sanctj Iohannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono venerabiis + virj Rich Tileslye Sacrae + Theologiae Doctoris Ecclesiae Cathedralis Roffensis Archidiaconj ejusdemque + Collegii olim socij’ (fol. 1v). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Hamman, A.-G., Patrologiae cursus completus a J. P. Migne editus, + Series Latina, Supplementum, 5 vols. (Paris: Garnier Frères, + 1958-1974; Caenegen, 1978: 207-209), vol. 4. + Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of + Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. + 2nd edn. (London, 1964), extended by Andrew G. Watson, MLGB: + Supplement to the Second Edition. RHS Guides and Handbooks 15 + (1987). + Schneyer, Johannes Baptist, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones + des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols. (Münster i. + W., 1969-90). + Sharpe, Richard, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain + and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval + Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_150.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_150.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..519c9260ee --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_150.xml @@ -0,0 +1,417 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 150 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_150 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 150 + + Guido of Arezzo and Bede on music + +

Comprising two originally separate MSS

+ + + both on vellum (the first HSOS/HFFH, the second FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. vii + 44 + (numbered fols. 1–42, viii, ix) + v (numbered fols. x–xiv). + 216 + 115 + + + + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf, two modern paper flyleaves, four medieval vellum flyleaves (the + first a former pastedown, with a College bookplate on the verso); at the + rear, two medieval vellum flyleaves (the second a former pastedown), two + modern paper leaves, and another marbled leaf (x–xiv).

+ + + + +

‘Iste liber est Fratris Iohannis + de Erghom in quo subscript’ continentur Musica F’ (fol. viiv). The volume was ‘Arsmetrica + Musica Geometria Perspectiua magistri Johannis Erghome’ F’ in the 1372 + catalogue of the York Austin + friars, ed. K. W. Humphreys, CBMLC, 1:153 (A + 8.643) + (Ker, MLGB 218, 321); the catalogue entry is + generally equivalent to the list of contents on fol. viiv (indicated by the + ellipses above):

a Musica Gydonis in prosa; b musica eiusdem in metro; c musica + cuiusdam sub dialogo; d liber Bede de arte metrica; e item liber eiusdem de tropis’.

 + ‘Kat’ wilstrop vj s viij d Robert Percy militis v s x d Percyvdll + lyndlay vj s viij d farbarn’ xx d Thikhed Domina beatrix thorneff priorissa + Domina Alicia thornton Domina katerina Brokhellis Domina maria Foston Domina + Margareta Wistow Domina Iohanna home Domina alicia Newton Domina Isabella + child’ (fol. ix; s. xv ex., secretary). The nuns are apparently those of + Thicket (E. Yks., OSB). + The old shelfmark ‘Abac: ij. N. 50’ (fol. vv). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G., and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Dekkers, Eligius, and Aemilius Gaar, Clavis patrum + latinorum, 3rd edn. (Turnhout, 1995). + Gerbert, Martin (ed.), Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica + (St Blasien, 1784; rept. [Milan, 1931]). + Huglo, Michel, ‘L’auteur du “Dialogue sur la musique” attribue a Odon’, + Revue de musicologie 55 (1969), 119–71. + Humphreys, K. W. (ed.), The Friars’ Libraries, Corpus of + British Medieval Library Catalogues 1 (1990). + Kendall, C. B., 'De arte metrica et de schematibus et tropis' in Charles + W. Jones (ed.) Bedae Venerabilis Opera. Opera didascalica, + Corpus Christianorum 123A (1975). + Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of + Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. + 2nd edn. (London, 1964), extended by Andrew G. Watson, MLGB: + Supplement to the Second Edition. RHS Guides and Handbooks 15 + (1987). + van Waesberghe, Jos. Smits (ed.), Guidonis Aretini, + Micrologus, Corpus scriptorum de musica 4 (1955). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + + + + + + Manuscript 1 – Fols. 1–24 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 1–10: + In nomine summe et indiuidue trinitatis incipit micrologus id est + breuis sermo in musica uersus sequentis operis + Gympnasio musas placuit reuocare solitas + Epistola GUIDONIS ad teodaldum aretine ciuitatis episcopum + Diuini timoris totiusque prudentię fulgore clarissimo dulcissimo + patri + + [Fol. 1v] Incipit prologus + Cvm me et naturalis conditio et bonorum immitatio communis + utilitatis diligentem [corr. from –er] + + [the text] Quid faciat qui se ad + disciplinam parat Igitur qui nostram disciplinam petit aliquantos cantus + nostris notis descriptos + semper humanas tenebras illustrante cuius suma sapientia per + cuncta uiget secula + GUIDO OF AREZZO + Micrologus + ed. Jos. Smits van Waesberghe, Corpus scriptorum de + musica 4 (1955) 46–233, with a description of our MS + at 44. + + <note/> + </msItem> + <msItem n="2" xml:id="St_Johns_College_MS_150-item2"> + <locus from="10r" to="14r">Fols. 10–14:</locus> + <rubric>Gliscunt corda meis hominum mollita camenis <gap reason="editorial" + /> Ordine me scripsi primo qui car<damage><gap unit="char" quantity="2" + /></damage>na finxi | </rubric> + <rubric><note type="editorial">[fol. 10v]</note> Incipit musica G trochaice </rubric> + <incipit>Mvsicorvm et cantorum magna est distantia | Isti dicunt illi sciunt + que componit musica</incipit> + <explicit>Auctor indiget et scriptor gloria sit domino amen | Omnibus ecce + modilis descripta relatio uocis</explicit> + <note> ‘Musica eiusdem in metro’ (the contents table, fol. viiv), i.e. + <persName role="aut" key="person_36956566">GUIDO</persName>, + <title>Regulae rhythmicae, ed. Martin Gerbert, + Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica (St Blasien, + 1784; rept. [Milan, 1931]) 2:25–33. + + + + Fols. 14–15: + Temporibus nostris super omnes homines fatui sunt cantores In omni + enim arte ualde plura sunt + in ipsa neumarum figura monstratur si sicut debent ex industria + componantur + GUIDO OF AREZZO + ‘Praefatio in antiphonarium’ + ed. Gerbert, 2:34–7. + + + + Fols. 15–17, + 22–4: + + Beatissimo atque dulcissimo fratri M G per anfractus multos + deiectus et actus Aut dura sunt tempora aut diuinę dispositionis obscura + discriminandum + omnia cum uix litteris ut cumque significemus facili tantum + colloquio denudamus + Qvi uero monocordium desiderat et qualitates et quantitates + similitudines + Cuius liber non cantoribus sed solis philosophis utilis + est + ‘Musica cuiusdam sub dialago’ (the contents table), i.e. GUIDO, Regule de ignotu + cantu or ‘Epistola Michaeli monacho’, ed. Gerbert, + 2:43–50. The break at fol. 22 is followed by a musical gamut, + perhaps the beginning of item 4. + + + Fols. 17–22: + [marg., anglicana, s. xiv ex.] Nota prologus in istum + tractatum incipit peti is obnixe fieris Quid + est musica Magister ueraciter canendi sciencia et facilis uia ad + perfectionem canendi + elationi inseruiens minus iam subditus creatori qui est benedictus in secula + seculorum amen + The so-called ‘Dialogus ODDONIS de + musica’, ed. Gerbert, 1:252–64 (the prologue + missing here at 251). Michel Huglo, ‘L’auteur du “Dialogue sur la + musique” attribue à Odon’, Revue de musicologie 55 + (1969), 119–71 demonstrates that the work is in fact from + Lombardy, and written c.1000 (Odo of Cluny, d. 942). Huglo discovered our copy + intercalated into item 4 (see 125). + + + Fol. 24: + Ad iudicium primi toni hec antiphona ponitur Moxerum ut cum fine + alicuius antiphonę + uocamus acutas Septem autem litterę dupliciter designantur hoc + modo sed dissimiliter + A tonarium from central Italy, replacing the Odonian + work which usually follows item 5; other copies appear at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS CLM 14523, fols. 132–3v; + Rome, Biblioteca Vallicellana MS B.81, fol. 128. + Followed by a musical scale, and a diagram of notes. + + + Fol. 24: + Dic mihi quot formę sunt can[quan]tus queso + magister + Quę minor his fuerit non cantus at oda uocatur + Six verses (perhaps + associable with Walther, no. 4369). Fol. 24v is blank. + + + + +

[gamma] A B C D E F G

+ + + Vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + + 170 + 77 + + 18 (4 + and 5 singles) 28 38 (4 and 5 singles). + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + Written in long lines, 38 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded and ruled in stylus. + + + + Written in caroline, s. xi/xii; the localization depends on the use + of ‘Aquitanian’ notation in some of the musical settings. Punctuation by + point, medial + point, high point, and + occasional punctus elevatus. + + + Headings usually in red (some in green), a few + in rustic capitals. + Two-line red arabesque initials slashed in green + at the heads of the texts. + Diagrams in text ink, with red and green + decoration. + Texts divided by red-slashed + capitals. + See AT, no. 641 (64) (fols. 1–24 + only; dated s. xi2). + + + + + s. + xi/xii + southern France + + + + + + + Manuscript 2 = Fols. 25–42, viii, ix + + + + Latin + + Fols. 25–36v: + Incipit liber de arte metrica uenerabilis BEDE presbiteri Iste beda + genere anglicus fuit presbiter doctor mirabilis hunc de arte metrica + libellum composuit versus + Me lege si linguam cupias cognoscere bede + Qui noticiam metrice artis habere desiderat primo necesse est vt + distanciam + ut lectioni operam impendas illarum maxime litterarum in quibus + nos uitam habere credimus sempiternam + Explicit de arte metrica liber primus [later rubric] + Bede + De arte metrica + CPL 1565, ed. C. B. Kendall, CC 123A 82–141. A + contents table between the introduction and the text. + + + Fols. 36v–42v: + Incipit liber de scematibus et tropis + Solet aliquociens in scripturis ordo uerborum causa doctoris aliter + quam uulgaris uia dicendi + ne descendat tollere illa et qui in agro similiter non reddat + retro memoris loth + Explicit liber uenerabilis BEDE presbiteri de scematibus et + tropis [later rubric] + CPL 1567, in fact part 2 of the preceding text, ed. + Kendall, 142–71. Fols. viii and ixrv are bounded and ruled, but + blank; fol. viiiv is blank and unruled. + + + +

et exipitur (fol. 26)

+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + + 165 + 76 + + 4–58 64. No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In long lines, 33–5 lines to the page. + Prickings; bounded and ruled in black ink + + + + Written in textura + quadrata, s. xiii ex. or xiii/xiv, a single hand, but + differing decorative schemes for each text. Punctuation by point and medial + point. + + + Text 8 has headings in red, and three of the + chapters are introduced by 2-line red lombards. + Elsewhere capitals are in text ink and + ochre-slashed. Some extended top line ascenders, a few with heads or + shrubs and ochre-slashed. + Texts broken by ochre-slashed + capitals. + Text 9 has 2-line red lombards, unflourished, at + textual divisions and occasional red paraphs to set off line run-over. + + + + + + s. xiii + ex. + England + + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_172.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_172.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5c71151b0a --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_172.xml @@ -0,0 +1,516 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 172 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_172 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 172 + + Miscellany: grammar/dictamen, alchemy, medicine + + Latin + + Fols. 1–30: + Hic aurum tibi non valet vbi filet philobiblon + Uniuersis cristi fidelibus ad quos tenor scripture presentis + peruenerit RICARDUS DE BURY miseracione diuina Dunulmensis Episcopus Salutem + in domino sempiternam piamque ipsius presentare memoriam iugiter coram deo + in vita pariter + [the text, fol. 2v] Quod thesaurus + sapience potissime sit in libris + Thesaurus desiderabilis sapiencie et sciencie + prothotipum ac eiusdem concedat perpetuum fruibilis faciei conspectum + Amen + Explicit philobilon domini RICARDI DE AUNGERUILE cognominati de + Bury quondam Episcopi Dunelm’ completus est autem tractatus isle in Manerio + nostro de Aukeland 24. die Ianuarij Anno domini Millesimo ccc0xliiijto. Etatis + nostre + Amen + RICHARD DE BURY + Philobiblon + Sharpe, no. 1296 (462), ed. Antonio Altamura (Naples, + 1954), 71–134, with a notice of our MS at 32–3. A contents table + follows the prologue on fol. 2v. + + + Fols. 30v–69v: + In lacrimas risus in luctus gaudia verto | In planctum plausus in + lacrimosa iocos + excitatum in sompno prior mistice apparitionis reliquit aspectus + Tractando planus hic liber finit ALANUS | In quo nature planctum pandit + periture + ALAIN OF LILLE + De planctu nature + + ed. Nikolaus M. Häring, Studi medievali 3rd ser. 19 + (1978), 797–879. + + + + Fols. 70–83 + Dilectissime frater in + qudam + quodam + timoris et amoris intersticio positus ineuitabili torqueor + cruciatu + inter hunc nominatiuum sacerdotes et hoc verbum choruscarent est + nimis prolixa distancia + THOMAS MERKE, bishop of Carlisle (d. + 1409) + 'Formula moderni et usitati dictaminis’ + (Sharpe, no. 1791 [668–9]), ed. Martin Camargo, Medieval + Rhetorics of Prose Composition (Binghamton, NY, 1995), + 105–47. See also Noel Denholm-Young, ‘The Cursus in + England’, in Collected Papers (Cardiff, 1969), 42–73 at + 69. + + + Fols. 83v–100: + Uniuersis tabellionibus Ciuitatis Bononie denizenis et amicis + karissimis Magister LAURENCIUS AQUILEGIUS salutem et per semitam omni + tempore incedere veritatis + [the text] Prima tabula salutaciones ad + summos pontifices + Sanctissimo in cristo patri et domino domino + N + amici sunt et amice Quot sunt virtutes tot vobis mando salutes + Explicit practica siue vsus dictaminis edita Bononie ad vtilitatem + rudium et nimis proueccorum per M LAURENCIUM AQUILEGIUM et GUYDONEM de + Ciuitate Parisiensi ad quorum facundiam nos perducat saluator dominus noster + [form ending] Amen + LAWRENCE OF AQUILEGIA + ‘Practica sive usus dictaminis’ + a collection of tables which will automatically generate letters; see + Denholm-Young, 67. For a similar work, by Lawrence’s + disciple, John of Bondi, see Ludwig Rockinger ‘Briefsteller und + Formelbucher’, Quellen und Erörtenungen 9 + (1863). + + + Fols. 100v–24: + Incipit sompniale dilucidarium Pharaonis + copositum + compositum + per IOHANNEM LENONIENSEM + Uictoriosi principi potestate areas debellanti domino Theobaldo dei + gracia Regi Nauarrie Rex virtutum progressurus ad + presencium aduersus principes tenebrarum viris + + [fol. 101] Secunda epistola pharonis ad + magos super sompnij declaracione + Pharao diuina magnificencia Rex Egipti dilectis suis disertis + philosophis + infamia solepnius celebrentur gaudium et leticia graciarum accio et + vox laudis Corpus scribentis saluet pater omnipotentis + JOHANNES LEMOVICENSIS, abbot of Zirc (OCist, + Hungary) + 'Morale somnium Pharaonis’ + ed. Constantine Horváth, Opera omnia 1 (Veszprém, 1932), + 71–126. I am grateful to James J. Murphy for notes deposited at St John’s on + the contents, esp. the rhetorical texts; his ‘Caxton’s Two Choices: + “Modern” and “Medieval” Rhetoric in Traversagni’s Nova + Rhetorica and the Anonymous Court of Sapience’, + Medievalia et Humanistica ns 3 (1972), 241–55 + mentions this item at 250, 254–5 n. 34 and our MS 184, item 4, at 246, 253 + n. 16. + + + Fols. 124v–8: + Qvot sunt littere xxti. que A B C D E etc. + Ex istis litteris quot sunt vocales quinque que A E I O V + naturaliter correpta producatur Sexto si silliba naturaliter producta + breuiatur + Explicunt regule versficacionum + This text and the next are noted in Bursill-Hall, 184; + another copy is in Worcester Cathedral MS F.61, fols. + 217–18v. + + + Fols. 128v–140v: + A Ante b in prima silliba corripitur vt labor oris et stabo + is + propria nomina tam prime quam secunde declinacionis ponuntur + indifferenter + ‘Accentuarium de breuibus et longis’ + (the contents table), another copy in Cambridge, Trinity + College MS O.5.4, fols. 66vb–9v; and a similar text cited by + Bursill-Hall, from Douai, BM, MS 748, fols. + 224–6. + + + Fols. 141–53v: + Philosophantes antiquos siue Indos siue Persas egipcios siue gregos in + visionibus sompniorum sequentes + vellimus intelligere rem quesitam sicut etiam in priori parucula fuit + tactam Et hec sufficiant de pronosticacionibus visionum + WILLIAM OF ARAGON + 'De somniis et visionum prognosticacionibus’ + ed. as ARNOLD OF + VILLANOVA, ‘Expositiones visionum quae + fiunt in somnis’, in Opera omnia (Basel, 1585), + 623–40. See further M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum + latinorum medii aevi hispanorum (Madrid, 1959), no. 1593 + (326), with notice of our MS. At the foot of fol. 153v are ten + verses: ‘Prima domus vite + possessio sitque secunde | Tercia sit fratrum ’ + (Walther, no. 1473). The text, and our MS, mentioned by + Beryl Smalley, ‘Robert Holcot OP’, Archivum Fratrum + Praedicatorum 26 (1956), 5–97 at 39–40 and Marcel + Thomas, ‘Guillaume d’Aragon, auteur du Liber de nobilitate + animi’, Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes 106 + (1945–6), 70–9 at 72 n. 1. + + + Fols. 154–211: + Svmmus opifex deus qui [repeats word] + postquam hominem ad ymaginem suam plasmauerat animam racionalem eidem + coniunxit + visio autem orama oraculum vero cheymatisinos sed enim insompnium + enypnion et visus nuncupantur + ‘Tractatus de quintessencia valde bonus’ + (TK 1539), the contents table title, which covers this text and the next, + cited as a unique copy, mentioned in Thorndike, 2:302 n. 3. Followed (fols. + 211v–14) by a table of topics treated. + + + Fols. 214v–44: + Rebus ab hijs centum quintum stillas elementum Primus liber de + consideracione 5e essencie Incipit liber de cumulatu philosophie ewangelici + + Dixit salomon sapiencie capitulo 7o deus + dedit mihi harum scienciam veram que sunt vt sciam disposicionem + ad consolacionem ewangeliorum virorum et honorem ecclesie sancti + dei + RAYMOND LULL? + or JOHN OF RUPESCISSA? + 'De consideratione quintae + essentiae' + TK 1316, eTK 0458A + + + Fols. 244v–60v: + Infirmis cuncta superest essencia quinta + In nomine domini nostri Ihesu cristi Incipit liber secundus qui de + generalibus remedijs appellatur sicut primus liber qui est de + consideracione + Et preceptum ypocratis est vt serues illud et nulli mortalium + reueles + ‘De 7. herbis 7. planetis attributis’ (tabula), a continuation of the + preceding item. + + + Fols. 261–6: + Tractatus de epidimia id est de pestilencia compositus a IOHANNE DE + BURGUNDIA aliter vocatus cum barba magno phisico et experto magnoque + Astrologo + Qvoniam omnia inferiora tam elementa quam elementata a superioribus + reguntur + fiat minucio consilium est magistrorum non expectando quia multis + mora periculum pant + JOHN OF BURGOYNE + 'de epidemia' + TK 1290, ed. Karl Sudhoff, ‘Pestschrifen aus den ersten 150 Jahren + nach der Epidemie des “Schwartzen Todes” 1348’, Archiv für + Geschichte der Medizin 5 (1912), 36–87 at 61, beginning + as the variant textual tradition cited 61 n. 2. + + + Fols. 266v–72: + Fleobotmia est multum iuuatiua in tempore sanitatis potissime in illis + ad me aut quia non fit comuniter et ideo discrecioni lectoris + relinquo + BERNARD OF GORDON + ‘De flegbotomia’ + (TK 563), the text cited as unique (perhaps an excerpt?). + + + Fols. 272v–304: + Urina est colamentum sanguinis et aliorum humorum de nature quidem + accionibus natum + significatur quod ibi est aliqualis colour resoluens materiam et + vaporem + ‘BERNARDUS [i.e. OF + GORDON] + de vrinis’ (the contents table, TK + 1608/1214), breaking off in ch. 27, ed. Practica Gordoni dicta + Lilium, Hain 7800*, BMC 5:451 (Venice, + 1498), Pt. 2, fols. 9vb–31vb. + + + Fol. 304rv: + Nota quod 8. sunt species pulsus inequales et inordinati Primus pulsus + dicitur caprisans + Isti ergo pulsus possunt intelligi per istos versus sequentes Capre + marcello serre ramo similatur | Fluctuat atque tremit vermem formica + sequatur + ‘De pulsibus’ (the contents table), not an + excerpt from PHILARETUS or BERNARD OF GORDON. + + + Fols. 305–13: + Galienus in tegni testatur quod qui agnitor interiorum esse membrorum + desiderat eum in athonomijs + partem matricis vnde tantum masculos vel feminas generant | Ossibus + ex denis bis centis atque nouenis | Constat homo denis bis dentibus et + duodenis | Et tricentenis decies sex quinque que venis + RICARDUS ANGLICUS + De anathomia + (Sharpe, no. 1318 [468–74]), ed. Karl Sudhoff, ‘Der + “Micrologus”-Text der ‘Anatomia” Richards der Engländers’, Archiv + für Geschichte der Medizin 19 (1927), 209–39. + + + Fols. 313v–23v: + Cvm per naturam mundi noscas genituram | Et que sit rerum mutacio + [eight verses] + Omnium corpora constancium tam perfecta quam + imperfecta a creacionis principio ex 4or naturis + composita sunt + Ideoque corpus solutum quod est permanens si igne preparetur debito multas M’c’ partes et + infinitas coagulat’ + JOHN SAWTRY, monk of Thorney + 'Radix mundi' + (Sharpe, no. 874 [311]), lacking the prologue and apparently breaking off + in a paraphrase of ch. 14; cf. the parallel material in BL, + MSS Harley 1747, fols. 1v–13; Harley 3542, fols. + 69–79, and the edn. ‘De lapide’. Ed. as ‘De lapide phiosophorum’, + by Hermannus Condeesyanus (Johannes Grassaeus), Harmoniae + imperscrutabilis chymico-philosophicae decas (Frankfurt, 1625), + 1:153–78, without the epilogue. Fol. vrv is blank but ruled on both sides. + + + + +

+ IN TUO +

+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. iv + 324 (numbered fols. 1–323, + v) + ii (numbered fols. vi–vii). + 195 + 135 + + + 128 + 78 + + + + 1–178 184 [fol. 140, a booklet boundary] | 9–338 [fol. 260, a booklet boundary] | 34–418. + Throughout, catchwords towards the gutter. + All leaves in the first half of each quire signed + with arabic numerals, in the first seven quires in red, thereafter in + text ink. Sporadic remainders of quire signatures: fol. 100 a, fol. 124 c?, fol. 141 + f?, fol. 151 g, fol. + 214 h, fol. 261 l?, fol. + 294 m. + + Water stains in the top right corner, with some effect on the + text of the final item. + + + In long lines, 31 lines to the page. Frequent + prickings; bounded and ruled in brownish ink. + + + + Written in anglicana with a few secretary forms. + Punctuation by point only. + + + Headings in red. + Three-line champes with marginal floral sprays at the + heads of texts. + In works with chapters, 2-line blue lombards on red + flourishing at chapter heads; some works have chapters broken with red + paraphs and/or red-slashed capitals. + In item 10, later added running titles to indicate + chapter numbers. + See AT, no. 450 (45), where it is + suggested that the volume may be Oxford work. + + + +

A modern replacement (the spine from an earlier binding). Sewn on three + thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated ‘1747’ on the verso), a + modern paper flyleaf, and two medieval vellum flyleaves (formed by + folding a blank waste sheet, pricked, bounded, and ruled in double + columns for about 50 lines), a College bookplate on fol. iiiv; at the + rear, a modern paper flyleaf and another marbled leaf (vi–vii). Fol. iii + has holes and verdigris stains from a staple clasp in Watson’s position + 6.

+ + + + + + s. xv2/4 + + England + + + A contents table in the scribal hand (fol. iiiv). + Pen-trials (fols. iiiv and vv, s. + xv). + ‘Istum librum Magistri Aldert egauit + Ad orandum pro anima eius et animabus parentis et parochialibus eius. + [then more formally:] Istum librum legauit + Magister Iohannes Alwart + quondam Rector ecclesie parochialis de Stoke bruern vniuersitati oxon’ vt oraret pro + anima eius et animabus parentum et parochianorum eius’, followed in another + hand? by ‘Tr qa qa + (fol. vv; anglicana, s. xv) (Ker, MLGB 143, 289). + The inscription transcribed in William Dunn Macray, Annals of the + Bodleian Library Oxford (1890; rept. Oxford, 1984), + 11. + ‘Liber Collegii Sancti Joannis Baptistae Oxon (fol. 1, upper + margin). + Two cancelled shelfmarks ‘Abac: ij. No. 9’ + and ‘D.10’ (fol. iiiv). + ‘Liber Collegii Divi Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono + Domini Gulielmi Paddei + Militis et ejusdem Collegii olim Convictoris 1634’ (fol. 2, upper margin). + + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002), with an additional author suggested for work 10 + and an added reference to eTK for work 10. + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G., and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Altamura, Antonio (ed.), Richard de Bury, Philobiblon + (Napoli: Fiorentino, 1954). + Bursill-Hall, G. L., A Census of Medieval Grammatical Manuscripts, + Grammatica speculativa 4 (Stuttgart, 1980). + Camargo, Martin (ed.), Medieval Rhetorics of Prose + Composition (Binghamton, NY, 1995). + Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British + Museum, 8 vols. (London, 1909). + Denholm-Young, Noel, ‘The Cursus in England’, in Collected + Papers (Cardiff, 1969), 42–73. + Diaz y Diaz, M. C.,Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi + hispanorum (Madrid, 1959). + Häring, Nikolaus M., “Alan of Lille, ‘De planctu Naturae’”, Studi + medievali, 3rd series, 19 (1978): 797–879 + Hain, L., Repertorium bibliographicum, 8 vols. (Stuttgart, + 1826–38, repr. Milan, 1948), with Supplement by W. A. + Copinger (London, 1895–1902; repr. Milan, 1950). + Horváth, Constantin (ed.), Johannis Lemovicensis, Opera + omnia 1 (Veszprém, 1932). + Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of + Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. + 2nd edn. (London, 1964), extended by Andrew G. Watson, MLGB: + Supplement to the Second Edition. RHS Guides and Handbooks + 15 (1987). + Macray, William Dunn, Annals of the Bodleian Library + Oxford (1890; rept. Oxford, 1984). + Murphy, James J., 'Caxton’s Two Choices: “Modern” and “Medieval” Rhetoric + in Traversagni’s Nova Rhetorica and the Anonymous + Court of Sapience’, Medievalia et + Humanistica ns 3 (1972), 241–55. + Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain + and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval + Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). + Rockinger, Ludwig, ‘Briefsteller und Formelbucher’, Quellen und + Erörtenungen 9 (1863). + Sudhoff, Karl, ‘Der “Micrologus”-Text der ‘Anatomia” Richards der + Engländers’, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin 19 (1927), + 209–39. + Sudhoff, Karl, ‘Pestschrifen aus den ersten 150 Jahren nach der Epidemie + des “Schwartzen Todes” 1348’, Archiv für Geschichte der + Medizin 5 (1912), 36–87. + Smalley, Beryl, ‘Robert Holcot OP’, Archivum Fratrum + Praedicatorum 26 (1956), 5–97. + Thomas, Marcel, ‘Guillaume d’Aragon, auteur du Liber de nobilitate + animi’, Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes 106 + (1945–6), 70–9. + Thorndike, Lynn, and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of + Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd edn. (Cambridge, + Mass., 1963). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

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+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_178 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 178 + + Miscellany: medicine and astronomy; Bestiary; Guillaume de + Conches, Dragmaticon; Cato and glossaries in Anglo-Norman + +

Comprising six separate MSS

+

hec est

+ + + Comprising six separate MSS, all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF), of which the portions designated + ‘Manuscript 2’ and ‘Manuscript 4’ below (fols. 9–144, 156–357) seem to be + a core around which different parts have accreted. + Fols. iii + 415 (numbered fols. + iv–vii, 1–411) + v (numbered fols. viii–xii). + 190 + 140 + + + A fifteenth-century foliation for fols. 1–281 (the current folio + 277), to match the contents table on fol. iii (this foliation omits 55, + has 78 for 77 as well as 78; later has 229, 22, 230, 233, and includes + numeration for a lost bifolium after fol. 172). + + + + The main scribe portions only: headings within + texts in red; colophons and incipits written in text ink in a larger, more + decorative anglicana. + Two- and 3-line alternate red and blue lombards on + flourishing of the other colour at textual divisions. + Some texts divided by red- or ochre-slashed + capitals (the latter only in item 21) or red paraphs. + Numerous coloured diagrams in texts 1, 5, and + 21. + Full illuminations include the zodiac man (fol. + 142). + The Bestiary is illustrated to fol. 194v, with about + ninety small pictures, typically set into the text area. The largest + illumination occupies three-quarters of fol. 169v, with three cartoons to + illustrate Canis. Other largish illuminations include another for Canis + (fol. 170), Adam naming the animals (fol. 171v), and a dragon waiting under + the tree ‘perindeus’ for doves to fall off into its mouth (fol. + 185). + The MS appears at Lucy Freeman Sandler, + Gothic Manuscripts, 1285–1385, 2 vols. (London, 1986) + as, no. 39 (2:45). See AT, no. 264 (27), identifying + the hand as London work (Calendar + of St Peter’s, Westminster) and plate xvi (fols. 142, 169v, 185). + Illustrations from the MS, especially the zodiac man, have often been + reproduced: see Sandler, plates 86 (fol. 165, the goat from the Bestiary) + and 87 (fol. 142, the zodiac man); Marcel Destombes, + Mappemondes A.D. 1200–1500, nos. 27.11 (fol. 37v, 61) + and 41.10 (fols. 324v, 333v, 107); + Sandler, The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British + Library (Oxford, 1983), 17, 102 nn. 24–5, fig. 9 (fol. + 142); Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, ed. Harry Bober, + Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated + Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages 3, 2 vols. + (London, 1953), 1:413 and 2:figure 240 (plate xcii, fol. 142). + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf, and six vellum flyleaves, four part of the actual volume (fols. + iii–vv are waste, bounded and ruled, fol. v pricked); at the rear, four + medieval vellum flyleaves and another marbled leaf (viii–xii).

+ + + + + + variously ss. + xiii1–xiv2/4 + + England + + + ‘Isti libri continentur in hoc + volumine beati petri Westm’ (fol. iii; anglicana, s. + xv2/4) (Ker MLGB + 197). + ‘Symondus Hampton Iste liber est + Ecclesie Beati P’ [around this in ink ‘Symond’, ‘Philippus Symond’ ‘Iohanna + Symond’ ‘Iohannes Symond’] (fol. xv, s. xv in red around a 4-line musical + stave); the same names appear again on fol. xi, with the addition of ‘Ricardus + Sowtbroke’. + A note on the zodiac, which includes + names: ‘Iohannes Iohannes + hunger ’ (fol. 38v, lower + margin, erased, s. xvi1/2). + An erased inscription (fol. vi). + Various pen-trials (fols. iv [s. xvi + ex.], viii, and fol. xv [both s. xvi in.]). + 'sum libellus Nich’ Sykys’ (fol. iii, upper margin, s. xvi); + he also owned our MS + 171. + 'George + Whalley owth this boke’ (fol. vv, s. xvi), below it two verses in + Spanish: ‘No es mego de riere Alenez cara (s. xvi ex. + italic). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G. and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Bloomfield, Morton W., et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the + Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D., Including a Section of Incipits of + Works on the Pater Noster (Cambridge Mass., 1979). + Bursill-Hall, G. L., A Census of Medieval Grammatical + Manuscripts, Grammatica speculativa 4 (Stuttgart, 1980). + Dekkers, Eligius, and Aemilius Gaar, Clavis patrum + latinorum, 3rd edn. (Turnhout, 1995). + Destombes, Marcel, Mappemondes A.D. 1200–1500. + Ewert, A., ‘A Fourteenth-Century Latin-French Nominale’, Medium + Ævum 3 (14), 13–18. + Fontaine, J. (ed.), Traité de la nature (Bordeaux, 1960), + 167–327. + Fowler-Magerl, Linda, Ordo iudiciorum vel ordo iudicarius, + Ius commune 19 (Frankfurt a. M., 1984), 144–5. + Hunt, Tony, ‘The Anglo-Norman Vocabularies in MS Oxford, Bodleian Library + Douce 88’, Medium Ævum 49 (1980), 5–2. + Hunt, Tony, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century + England (Cambridge: Brewer, 1991). + Hurlbut, Stephen A., ‘A Forerunner of Alexander de Villa-Dei’, + Speculum 8 (1933), 258–63. + James, M. R., The Bestiary, Roxburghe Club (Oxford, + 1928). + Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of + Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. + 2nd edn. (London, 1964), extended by Andrew G. Watson, MLGB: + Supplement to the Second Edition. RHS Guides and Handbooks 15 + (1987). + Legge, Mary Dominica,Anglo-Norman Literature and Its + Background (Oxford, 1963). + Meyer, Paul (ed.), ‘Notice sur les Corrogationes Promethei + d’Alexandre Neckam’, Notices et extraits des Manuscrits de Ia + Bibliothèque Nationale 35, ii (1896), 641–82. + Möller, Reinhold (ed.), Hiltgart von Hürnheim Mittelhochdeutsche + Prosaübersetzung des ‘Secreta Secretorum’ (Berlin, 1963). + Perry, Ben E.Secundus the Silent Philosopher (Ithaca, NY, + 1964). + Ronca, Italo, William of Conches, Dragmaticon + Philosophiae, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 152 + (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997). + Sandler, Lucy Freeman, Gothic Manuscripts, 1285–1385, 2 + vols. (London, 1986). + Sandler, Lucy Freeman , The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the + British Library (Oxford, 1983). + Saxl, Fritz, and Hans Meier, ed. Harry Bober, Catalogue of + Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle + Ages 3, 2 vols. (London, 1953). + Schmitt, C. B. and D. Knox (eds), Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus: A + Guide to Latin Works Falseley Attributed to Aristotle before 1500 + (London, 1985). + Sharpe, Richard, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain + and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval + Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). + Thorndike, Lynn, ‘De Complexionibus’, Isis 49 (1958), + 398–408. + Thorndike, Lynn, ‘Notes on Some Less Familiar British Astronomical and + Astrological Manuscripts’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld + Institutes 22 (1959) 157–71. + Thorndike, Lynn (ed.), The <title>Sphere of Sacrobosco and + Its Commentators (Chicago, 1949), 76–117. + Thorndike, Lynn, and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of + Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd edn. (Cambridge, + Mass., 1963). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + Walther, Hans, Proverbia sententiaeque latinitatis medii aevi: + Lateinische Sprichwörter, 5 vols. (Göttingen, 1963-7) + + + + + + MS 178 - Flyleaf texts + + + Flyleaf texts + + Latin and Middle English + + Fol. ii (a former pastedown): + a cropped vellum leaf from a noted Breviary in double columns (s. xv), mounted with the page + foot at leading edge, with a College bookplate on the verso. + + + Fol. iii: + ‘Isti libri continentur in hoc volumine beati petri Westm’, a table of + contents, in anglicana, s. xv2/4. + + + Fols. viiiv, xv, xiv + ruled in red for music. + + + Fol. ixv: +

‘Ihesus passion be myn helpe’, with four or five sets of verses (only one in Walther) + in the same hand, mixed anglicana/secretary, s. xv med.

(i) + ‘Secundum ingeniolum meum carismate aspirante compendiose declarabo + etc.’

+

(ii) ‘Cum pare pugnare dubium forciori dampnum | Cum puero pudor est + sic pax super omnia prodest’.

+

(iii) ‘Silencium est frenum claustralium et ideo claustralis sine + silencio est quasi equus sine freno’.

+

(iv–v) ‘Quondam scire nichil vicium fuit est modo risus | Est modo nil + vicium preter habere nichil || Antiquo more sapiencia prefuit auro | + Presenti vere melius nil indico stauro [l. stanno?]’.

+ + + + Fol. ixv: + ‘Si culpare velis culpabilis esse cauebis | Dogma tuum sordet cum te + tua culpa remordet’ (Walter, Sprichwörter, no. + 28372, varied), in a hand resembling that which copied the + contents table; and recopied below, s. xv ex. + + + + Fol. xv below the + signature (see Provenance below): + ‘Sancti spiritus assit nobis gracia | Que corda nostra sibi faceat + habitacula | Expulsi inde cunctis spiritalibus’ (s. xv + ex.). + + + Fol. xv: + Robertum sarum robur decus ecclesiarum | Te matri carum vis—Ille suis + donis sedem det nunc vnionis’, below the preceding, in six couplets, + s. xv3/4, not in Walther. + + + + + s. + xv + + + + + + + Manuscript 1 = Fols. iv–vii, 1–8 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 1–8v: + ‘Hec est tabula terminorum que est prima de compoto comuni’, with a + table of moon signs (fol. 2v) and calendar (fols. 3–8v). Among feasts in + red are ‘cathedra sancti Petri’ (21 February), Guthlac, Elphegus, + Botulph, Philbert abbot, and Edmund Rich. + + + + + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + + 18 + 24 (not clearly bifolia). + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + + + + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 2 = Fols. 9–144 + + + + Latin and French + + Fols. 9–37: + Incipit epistola Beati YSIDORIJ IPALENSIS vrbis Episcopi ad + Sisebucum de Naturis rerum + Domino et filio Sisebuto ysodorus salutem Dum te prestantem ingenio + facundiaque ac vario flore litterarum + [fol. 10, the text] Incipit liber + beati YSIDRI IPALENSIS vrbis Episcopi ad sesebucum de naturis rerum De + diebus + Dies est solis orientis presencia vsque ad occasum + perueniat + mensuram geometrici clxxx. milium stadiorum estimauerunt Cuius + terre exposicionem in medio occeano subiecta declarat formula + Explicit liber beati YSODORII SPALENSIS episcopi de naturis + rerum + ISIDORE OF SEVILLE + De natura rereum + CPL 1188, ed. J. Fontaine, Traité de la + nature (Bordeaux, 1960), 167–327. A contents table + on fols. 9v–10 with a second one-sentence prologue. In this portion of + the MS, persistent instructions to the rubricator in crayon at the page + foot. + + + Fols. 37v–8v: + Summus itaque planetarum + saturnus dicitur in peragrinacione zodiaci fere xxx. annos + consumens + Aquarum Calidos et humidos Cancrum Scorpionem et Pisces frigidos + et humidos + TK 1539, cited from Erfurt, Wissensch. Bibliothek der + Stadt, MS Amplonianum F.346, fols. 18v–19. + + + Fols. 39–41v: + Incipit + tractatus + tractus + ARISTOTILIS de iiijor. humoribus + Elementum est simpla et Minima pars corporis compositi Elementa + igitur quatuor sunt + Et mulieres si commederint ab omni partu euacuantur testante + Ieronimo et medicis pluribus Explicit + PS. -ARISTOTLE + 'de quatuor humoribus' + (TK 496, PAL no. 79 (54)); discussed and + partially translated from our MS by Lynn Thorndike, ‘De + Complexionibus’, Isis 49 (1958), 398–408 at + 406–8. + + + Fols. 42–3: + Forma Chilindri hec est + Describe quartam partem circuli et diuide eam in congrue + partes + sint ab origine mundi vsque ad eundem terminum vjM6CI. annum + dj. + On the cylinder, with + further notes on various kinds of measurement (TK + 567). + + + Fols. 43v–53v: + Incipit algorismus + Omnia que sunt a primeua rerum origine processerunt racione + numerorum formata sunt + qui modus comparandi est idem cum predicto Et hec de radicum + extraccione sufficiant + Explicit Algonismus + JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO + Algorismus + (TK 1295), ed. Maximilian Curtze, Petri + Philomeni de Dacia in Algorismum vulgarem Johannis de Sacrobosco + Commentarius (Copenhagen, 1897), 1–19. + + + Fols. 53v–71: + Incipit tractatus de Spera + Tractatum de spera quatuor capitulis distinguimus dicentes primo + quid sit spera + [fol. 54] Spera ab euclide sic describitur + spera est transitus circumferencie dimidii + in eadem passione dixisse aut deus nature patitur aut Machina + mundi dissoluetur + JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO + Tractatus de Sphera + (Sharpe, no. 865 [306]), ed. Lynn Thorndike, + The <title>Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its + Commentators (Chicago, 1949), 76–117. Three diagrams + on fol. 71v. + + + Fols. 72–103: + Incipit compotus + Compotus est sciencia considerans tempora ex solis et lune + motibus + ire iubes stabilisque manens das cuncta moueri Tu stabilire velis + et cetera + Explicit Compotus + JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO + Compotus + ed. Libellus de anni ratione seu ut uocatur uulgo + Computus Ecclesiasticus (Paris, 1550), fols. 5–54. + Fol. 103v has a ‘Cribrum BOETIJ de Multiplicacione numerorum’. + + + Fols. 104–38: + Incipit prologus Magistri ALEXANDRI NEQUAM + Ferrum situ rubiginem trahit Et vitis non putata in labruscam + Siluescit + [the text] + Vtrum grammatica sit ars + Excellentissimo philosopho platoni visum est gramaticam non esse + censendam nomine artis + lineam non sequitur Similiter et senex delirus horus deliret + acumen + Explicit prologus magistri ALEXANDRI NEQUAM + ALEXANDER NEQUAM + Corrogationes Promethei + part 1 only (Sharpe, no. 102 [51–3]); only excerpts have + been printed, ed. Paul Meyer, ‘Notice sur les Corrogationes + Promethei d’Alexandre Neckam’, Notices et extraits + des Manuscrits de Ia Bibliothèque Nationale 35, ii (1896), + 641–82. + + + Fols. 138–40: + Incipiunt cautele super Algorismum + | [fol. 138v] Duabus rebus + existentibus in duabus manibus ut sciatur que res in qua manu + sit + erit prima pars sexta pars tocius secunda vero media pars tertia + autem tripulum + TK 468. + + + Fols. 140v–1v: + Istud sequens capitulum in cognicionem mansionis lune est editum + Artem ad cognoscendum in quo signo et in quo gradu signi sit luna + sit luna cotidie hanc attende + ad pedes et ad corum extremitates et eorum neruos et ad eorum + infirmitates vt est dolor et podagra etc + TK 145. The material on the moon is followed by a second + chapter, including verses on the planets, a table of lunar houses, and + materials on the zodiacal signs; fol. 142 has a full-page illustration of + a zodiacal man, with two distichs below the text, inc. ‘Ista sex signa + que sunt a principio arietis ’ Lynn Thorndike + discusses items 11–14 in ‘Notes on Some Less Familiar British + Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts’, Journal of the + Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 22 (1959) 157–71 at + 160–1. + + + Fols. 142v–3: + Moderitus dicit Luna duabus diebus et vj. horas ac bisse vnius hore + per singula signa labitur + incisio non debet fieri in membro aliquo luna existente in signo + membrum illud significante + Further zodiacal notes + (TK 877). In this and the two following texts, a variety of + added notes in the lower margin. + + + Fol. 143rv: + Tractatus accidencium et effectuum alphel Secundum lunares mansiones + in vnoque et xij. Signis + Luna existente in Ariete sanguinem minuere et balneis vti bonum + est + Leo est signum Masculinum Uirgo est signum feminitiuum Libra est + signum Masculinum + A lunary + (TK 835). + + + Fol. 144rv: + Quando uolueris ut qui sunt in palacio videantur nigri + tunc accipe ex spuma maris + faculus plenus sale tosto parti dolenti superponatur vel coquatur + clauo de Cupro + Expliciunt medicine + Recipes, more than half in French (TK + 1172). + + + +

De pestilencia

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 136 + + 140–5 + 105 + + 3–912 1014 1112 1214 + 1312. + Catchwords; + all leaves in the first half of each quire + signed, with a letter or a roman (rarely arabic) + numeral. Quire 10 may have been constructed as a long + quire ending a booklet, but the potential fascicle boundary was then + abandoned to continue the book. + + + In long lines, 22 lines to the page. Prickings + rare; apparently bounded and ruled in lead but either faded or + erased. + + + + Written in anglicana, s. xiv in.; the hand is reminiscent of that in + the Shropshire miscellany BL, MS Harley 2253. + Punctuation by point only. + + + + + s. xiv + in. + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 3 = Fols. 145–55 + + + + Latin and Anglo-Norman + + Fol. 145rv: + Incipit explanacio breuis de dictis Esdre prophete gallice probatis + Ces sunt les diz Esdras le prophete ky en ierusalem prophezat Si le + iour de lan remis auient par dymaigne + Si il lust le secund ior donc ert or et argent legier a + conquere + Prognostics according to the day on which the new year + falls, in Anglo-Norman. + + + Fols. 145v–8v: + Subiungentur admiracionis causa quedam antiquorum opiniones que + etiam a nullis modernorum quam plurimum reprobantur + Lvna prima omnibus rebus faciendis vtilis est Puer natus illustris + et vitalis erit + affabilis et honorificus Forma vero qui nascetur utilis + erit + TK 837, analogues noted in Thorndike, 1:680 n. 1. The + text also appears in Cambridge, Trinity College MS + O.7.23, fol. 68v. Followed (fol. 149rv) by a variety of medical + notes and verses. + + + Fols. 150–5v: + Iudicium est actus trium personarum videlicet Iudicis actoris et + rei et testis iiijo. notator + habere litteras testimonias de sua conuersacione in suo recessu de + dicto hospicio + A unique guide for + procedure, presumably in Westminster courts and postdating the + canonical collection Extra (1234), discussed by + Linda Fowler-Magerl, Ordo iudiciorum vel ordo + iudicarius, Ius commune 19 (Frankfurt a. M., 1984), + 144–5. + + + +

-nem minuere

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 11. + 130 + 110 + + 146+6 + (+2, +3 [a bifolium], +4, +5 [another bifolium], +10, +11 [a third + bifolium], –12 [probably blank]) (see Additional Commentary + below). + No catchwords; + the first five leaves signed with roman + numerals in red. This quire/MS appears to have been subject to + processes of extension in production. Originally the + scribe seems to have contemplated only the first two astronomical + texts and economically supplied a series of bifolia to compete, and + subsequently extend, this work. + + + In long lines, 29 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded and ruled in brown crayon and lead. + + + + In gothic textura + rotunda with anglicana letter forms, + s. xiii2. Punctuation by point only. + + + + + s. xiii2 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 4, Booklet 1 = Fols. 156–261 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 156–217: + Incipit primus liber de naturis bestiarum + Leo fortissimus Bestiarum ad nullius pauebit occursum Bestiarum + vocabulum proprie conuenit Leonibus + [fol. 216v] est condere corpora nam + humare obruere dicimus hoc est humum in + itinere + itere + + + Explicit Svnt lapides igniferi in quodam monte + ab adam vsque in folios inobediencie debachatur + The Bestiary + a text of the ‘second family’; see M. R. James, The + Bestiary, Roxburghe Club (Oxford, 1928). There is + missing text between fols. 172 and 173. + + + Fols. 217–61: + Hic incipiunt secreta secretorum ARISTOTILIS + | [fol. 217v] Domino sui + excellentissimo in cultu Religionis cristiane srenuissimo Gwidoni vere de + valencia cuitatis Tripolis glorioso ponticifi PHILIPPUS suorum Minimus + clericorum Quanto luna ceteris stellis est + lucidior et solis radius lucidate Lune fulgencior + [fol. 218v] Deus omnipotens custodiat regem + nostrum gloriam credencium et confirmet regnum suum + [fol 219v] Iohannes qui transtulit istum + librum filius Patricii Linguarum interpretate peritissimus Fili karissime et gloriosissime imperator + iustissime confirmet te deus in via cognoscendi + magnificum Alexandrum qui dominates fuit toto orbi ductus Monarcha + in septemtrione + Explicit liber ARISTOTILIS de secretis secretorum + PS.-ARISTOTLE + Secreta secretorum + PHILIP OF + TRIPOLI’s translation (PAL, no. 81 [54–75], + our copy noted at 69); ed. Reinhold Möller, Hiltgart von + Hürnheim Mittelhochdeutsche Prosaübersetzung des ‘Secreta + Secretorum’ (Berlin, 1963), 1–2, 14–164. + + + Fol. 261rv: + Et incipit explanatio breuis et compendiosi numerandi + Omnis numerus aut est digitus aut articulus aut compositus dignitus + Septimus loco M Millesies et sie deinceps + TK 999. Followed by a table of roman numerals and their arabic + equivalents. + + + +

insecuta

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 202. + 145–50 + 120 + + 1512 + 1612 (–6, –7) 17–2312. + Catchwords; all + leaves in the first half of quires 21–23 signed with roman numerals + in red (perhaps cut away elsewhere). + + + In long lines, 27 lines to the page. No + apparent pricking, bounds, or rules. + + + + Written by the scribe of Manuscript 2, + here the hand appearing more developed, perhaps of s. xiv2/4. Punctuation by point only. + + + + + + + + s. xiv2/4 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 4, Booklet 2 = Fols. 262–357 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 262–355v + Queris venerande Dux Normanmorum et Comes Andegauensium cur + Magistris nostri temporis minus creditor quam antiquis + memoria et delirant homines Extincto vero naturali calore desinit + homo viuere + ‘Questiones ad philosophum’ (table), in fact GUILLAUME DE CONCHES, + Dragmaticon philosophiae, ed. I. + Ronca, CCCM 152 (1997), 3–270, with our copy collated as O1 (described pp. LI–LII). + + + Fols. 356–7: + De SECUNDO Philosopho + Secundus philosophos philisophatus est omni tempore silencium + conseruans et pictagoricam ducens vitam + Mundus est incessabilis circuitus Spectabilis suppellex per se + genitum torreuma + Explicit de SECUNDO philosopho + De Secundo Philosopho + Roughly corresponds to WILLIAM OF + GAP’s translation from Greek, to section 8 only, ed. + Ben E. Perry, Secundus the Silent Philosopher (Ithaca, + NY, 1964), 92–4. + + + Fol. 357rv: + Incipit Explanacio quorundam verborum que sub una significacione tam + neutra Sunt quam deponencia + Sunt quedam verba sub vna significacione tam neutra quam deponencia + vt latino neutrum + vnde virgilius in georgicis Aut tenuis fetus uicie tristesque + lupini + Explicit explanatio [as the initial + heading] + Unidentified; not in + Bursill-Hall. + + + + + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 202 + 145–62 + 115 + + 24–3112. Catchwords (a few cut + away); all leaves in the first + half of quires 27 and 29 signed with roman + numerals. + + + In long lines, 22–5 lines to the page. No + prickings, bounded and ruled in lead. + + + + In the same anglicana of s. xiv in. or xiv2/4 as the preceding (and MS 2). Punctuation by point only. + + + + + s. xiv in. + or xiv2/4 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 5 = Fols. 358–97 + + + + Latin and Anglo-Norman + + Fols. 358–87v: + Incipit Nodus In cirpo + Introducendis in artem grammaticam primo uidendum est quid sit + grammatica et vnde dicatur + [the poem begins] Ad presens edam pueris + puerilia quedam [interlinear gloss] id est + in presenti opere componam vel ostendam artem + [explanatory gloss] Edo es quando + inequaliter declinatur significat commedo et facit preteritum + edi + [fol. 387, the poem ends] Que + pretermittentur geminis acuenda uidentur + [the gloss ends] secundum predictas regulas + accentuum Et hec de accentibus ad presens dicta sufficiant + JOHN OF BEAUVAIS + 'Liber pauperum' + (Walther, no. 421), another copy in BL, + MS Royal 15 B.iv; see Stephen A. Hurlbut, ‘A Forerunner + of Alexander de Villa-Dei’, Speculum 8 (1933), 258–63 + at 263 n. 1, and our copy noted by Bursill-Hall, + 184. With an interlinear and a fully explanatory gloss. Scribal + prayer in upper margin of first page; four additional grammatical notes + by the scribe ‘Robertus’ follow the explicit. + + + Fols. 388–90v: + Pater noster qui es in celis sanctificetur nomen tuum et In hac + locucione ponitur hoc relatiuum qui ergo refert ad aliquod antecedens + queratur ad quod + per inplicationem refert hoc pronomen ille et conuenit sue + relacioni cum ipsam + A grammatical commentary on the + Paternoster + (Bloomfield, no. 8464). + + + Fols. 391–7: + Ki uolt sauoir la faitement que catun a sun fiz aprent | Si en + latin nel set entendre + [fol. 391v, the actual translation begins] + Si par pense pure cum dist la scripture | Seit hum deu cultiuer [the Latin] Si deus est animus nobis ut + carmina dicunt + [the Latin] Hoc breuitas sensus + fecit coniungere binos Kest en raisun un ueirs deus sulement | Kil + translata entent tut al trefi | Sanz dyes dunt ihesu ait merci + Amen + ELIAS OF WINCHESTER + The Distichs of Cato + in Anglo-Norman verse, with the Latin original written in the gloss + hand, both marginally and in alternate lines, unpublished; see M. + Dominica Legge, Anglo-Norman Literature and Its + Background (Oxford, 1963), 182. A different scribe + writing in the same page frame as the preceding MS. Fol. 397v is blank. + + + + +

Bacus

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 40. + + 140 + 85 + + 32–348 3510 3610 (–7, –8, –9, –10, three of them large + stubs, with visible small bits of writing). Catchwords; + all leaves in the first half of quire 32 signed with arabic numerals. + + + + In long lines, 42 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded and ruled in brown ink. + + + + Written in gothic + textura prescissa (text) and quadrata (gloss), different sizes + for text and gloss, on the whole above top line, s. xiii1. Punctuation by medial point and punctus elevatus. + + + + + + + + s. xiii1 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 6 = Fols. 398–411 + + + + Latin and Anglo-Norman + + Fols. 398–407: + [the text] Qui ille + scilicet bene wlt disponere ordoner familie a sa + meine sue et rebus suis prouiderat purueit sibi in + vtensilibus [the marginal gloss] Sepe damus + flammis cepum sicesc’e cepas Visis sepi per + sepem + [the gloss tails off, extensively filled only to + fol. 400] + alium in cirografis sub breuitate et compendiose per apices + par titles scribi debet Explicit Liber + The Latin is ALEXANDER + NEQUAM, ‘De nominibus + utensilium’ + (Sharpe, no. 102 [51–3]), ed. Tony Hunt, + Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century + England (Cambridge: Brewer, 1991), + 1:177–189/23. + + + Fol. 407vab: + Quis nescit quam sit nobile uulgus | In o ceram exuit sonus eo + facit cito per se | Nummus habet ceruos quibus auget fetus + aceruos +

Latin verses + (Walther, no. 16086, with half a dozen English + copies), followed by eight verses over erasure and (from fol. 408) + grammatical notes and + verses in a variety of hands, s. xiii ex. These include + (fol. 408va) the ‘versus de synonymis’ cited by Bursill-Hall, inc. + ‘Balnea cornici quid prosunt quid meretrici’ + (Walther, no. 2052).

 + + + Fol. 410rab: + Responsio SECUNDI philosophi ad arrianum imperatorem + Dixit secundus philosophus Mundus est constitucio celi et terre et + omnium que in eis + Equalitas animorum Quid fides est Ignote rei miranda + certitudo + As item 22 above, and following on from its explicit, ed. Perry, + 94–100. Followed by a pair of verses ‘Pacto lex cedit pacto lex omnis + obedit | Quolibet in facto lex est obnoxia pacto’ (not in Walther). + + + + Fols. 410v–11v: in four columns: + Hec anima alme hic uel hoc homo homme hic uel + hoc nemo hoc corpus cors hoc capud chef + arundo suggit + arudo + arundo + crescit Mundo hic circulus curua + A Latin-Anglo-Norman + <title>nominale, partly ed. A. Ewert, ‘A + Fourteenth-Century Latin-French Nominale’, Medium Ævum + 3 (14), 13–18; see further Tony Hunt, ‘The Anglo-Norman + Vocabularies in MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 88’, Medium + Ævum 49 (1980), 5–25, where our copy is collated; + and cf. Hunt, Learning Latin, 401. + + + +

canium

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + Fols. 14. + 3710 384. + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + For text 27, writing area a + central text column + 162 + 55 + on alternate lines to allow glosses, between two gloss + columns mm wide along the gutter and + 40 + mm wide along the leading edge. In long lines, 24 lines + of text, 59 lines of gloss to the page. No prickings, bounded and + ruled in brown crayon. + The remainder, to fol. 410, in rough double columns + and a variety of different hands adding grammatical notes of various + types. The succeeding nominale is in four + columns. + + + + Written in gothic + textura semiquadrata, s. xiii2. Punctuation by point, + medial point, and occasional punctus elevatus. + + + + + s. xiii2 + + England + + + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

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+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_184 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 184 + + Commentary on Sext, grammatical texts + + Latin + + Fols. 1–115: + Cum ordinem Cisterciensem per Rationem quo non + ordine suo conuenire non possunt Eam te Si vacante sede propria scribat + capitulo et prebend’ conferat episcopus ibi creatus mandatum adimplere + tenetur + Cum secundum Item dicit quod supra capitulo proximo + Explicit iiijtus liber + An unidentified commentary on Sext. + + + Fols. 116–56v: + Assit principio sancta maria meo + Incipit liber quintus In antecedente de accusacionibus et + inquisicionibus + Si legitimus non sentitur per Iohannem dicit tamen + retinendo requiritur canonica Institucio Sequuntur alie regule quas + non oportet summare Expliciunt casus summarij + Apparently the previous item concluded. Fols. 157v–8, 160rv have ‘Regule + Iuris in sexto’, an index; fols. 157, 158v–9v left blank, now with added + texts. + + + Fols. 161–80: + Lucio Vecturio suo CICERO salutem Collegi ea que pluribus modis + dicuntur quo verio prompcior que ad id totum quid plerumque multo major pars + trahi in hos omnes potent formas Abditum Opertum + Absconditum Obbscurum Obumbratum Obtusis Cecum Inuolutum Tectum + Coopertum + Vitare Declinare Caucre Subterfugere Operitur Prestolatur Exspectatur + Sustinet + Expliciunt synonoma M T CICERONS + Qui scripsit carmen sit benedictus Amen quod Wylton + PS.-CICERO + Synonyma + because it was known to Isidore of Seville, usually referred to as ‘the + Isidorian Synonyma’; for + discussion, see Martin Schanz, rev. Carl Hosius, Geschichte der + Römischen Literatur, 4th edn. 1 (Munich, n.d.), 548–9, a + reference we owe to Michael Winterbottom. + + + Fols. 180v–6: + Colores precipue pertinentes ad ornatum dictaminis sunt duo scilicet + circuicio et transsumpcio + [fol. 183] illa verba specialia stant + sub vno verbo generali vt preexpositum est Tris sibi vult similem tetras + sibi disimilem vult + In predicto versu ponuntur regule cadenciarum fundari + et sentenciam multarum clausarum de quibus non tracto causa + breuitatis + Explicit tractatus rethorice habitus sub compendio datus a + magistro SYMONE ALKOKE doctore in theologia anno domini Mocccmo27o. quad Wylton + SIMON ALCOCK + De modo dividendi themata + (Sharpe, no. 1628 [608]), in fact two brief and unpublished + tracts; for their relationship, see Martin Camargo (ed.), Medieval + Rhetorics of Prose Composition (Binghamton, NY, 1995), 112 n. + 31. + + + Fols. 186v–195: + Versus salutacionis Salue plus decies quam sunt momenta dierum | Quot + generum species Quot + sut + sunt + partes epistole Parcium epistole quedam sunt ipsam essentialiter + integrantes et quedam accidentaliter + inter hunc nominatiuum sacerdotes et hoc verbum choruscarent est + nimis prolix distancia Explicit etc + THOMAS MERKE + bishop of Carlisle (d. 1409), ‘Formula moderni et usitati dictaminis’ + (Sharpe, no. 1791 [668–9]), ed. Camargo, + Medieval Rhetorics, 105–47, with our MS + described at 111–13. The incipit, ten verses in total, is Walther, no. + 17138, cited from three German MSS. + + + Fols. 195–201: + In dei nomine Amen ad instantiam dilecti mei W pro sua doctrina + feliciter amplianda tam in modo dictandi + meam simplicitatem vobis ad presens notam facere non + formidans + A further ars dictaminis, an incomplete version at + Lincoln Cathedral MS 237, fols. 67v–70v. + + + Fols. 201v–2v: + Studiose agendum est vt eaque promittuntur opere compleantur | que + procedunt de labiis meis + vt peruertet semitas iusticie Ira patris filius stultus et dolor + matris que genuit eum + Proverbs. + + + Added text: + + Fol. 115v: + xxiij. distinctio qui episcopus humilitas de pe di ij dist’ sus + Imutacio saluatoris + A pair of distinctiones, a quotation + on the qualities of a good bishop, and five verses, inc. ‘Primo + precipitur quod sit sine crimine presull | Monogamus sobrius...’ + (Walther, no. 14624). + + + Fol. 157: + Anna solet dici tres concepisse marias + (six verses, + Walther, no. 1060, claiming to know 32 copies, to which + add BodL, Laud misc. 486 and 513). Items (b)–(e) have been added in three mixed anglicana/secretary + hands, s. xv + ex. + + + + Fol. 157: + ‘Cor sapit et pulmo loquitur fel ammouet iras | Splen ridere facit + cogit amare iecur’ (not in Walther). + + + Fol. 157: + Nota quare quilibet baptizatus vngitur in fronte + + + + Fol. 157: + ‘Iste sunt differencie gracie et virtutis Tu spiras vbi vis tu munera + diuidis vt vis | Tu quid vis cui vis tu quamuis munere quo vis’ (Walther, no. 19536). + + + Fol. 158v: + Concianotorum precipuus salamon sanctus edoctus ab alto viros + gloriosos laudare me admonet ad effectum + with two similar snippets on fol. 159v + + + Fol. 180: + grammatical notes, on + words related to ‘grandis’; and the versus ‘Tria sunt necessaria Pax + sapiencia Copia | Tria sunt contraria lis inopia fraus + mulierum’ (not in Walther) (s. xv ex.). + + + + +

Innocencius

+ + + Mixed vellum and paper. With the exception of a single bifolium + (fols. 119 + 124), quires 10–12 are entirely vellum (HSOS/HFFH). Elsewhere, the scribe has taken + roughly equivalent numbers of vellum and paper bifolia (most usually + three of each; the last three quires are larger) and folded them + together. The paper usually appears folded in quarto, + and although regular paper-vellum-paper alternation is not universal, the + quires appear to have been formed from half-sheets. The watermarks are + uncertain:

A: Uncertain: fols. 152 and 155 in + quire 14.

+

B: Tête humaine: of the type + Briquet, nos. + 15600 et seq., most common s. xv2/4, in quires + 15–17.

 + Fols. iii + 202 + iii + (numbered fols. iv–vi). + 190 + 110 + + + 128 + 73 + + + 112 + (–1 –3 to 10) 2–712 814 916(–15?, a + paper stub) 1012 (–1, a vellum stub) [fol. + 115, a booklet boundary] | 1112 128 1312 1412+1 (+13) [fol. 160, a booklet boundary] | + 15–1714. + Catchwords, boxed and early examples red-slashed, none after + quire 14. + All leaves in the first halves of quires signed + with a roman or arabic numeral, a few quires given numerical + signatures on the first recto or last verso; in this system, quires + 1–3 = I–iij; quire 12 = ij (of booklet 2). + Fols. 1 and 2 have been torn and replaced with parchment, half + and third respectively torn away. + + + In long lines, about 30 to the page. No prickings; + bounded in brown crayon, no rules. + + + + Written in anglicana (although secretary + a and g) by a scribe named + Wylton (see Provenance below). Punctuation by occasional point and medial + point. + + + Lemmata written in textura with anglicana letter + forms (item 1). + Some effort at running titles to indicate topics + treated. + To the end of booklet 2, fol. 62, lemmata + underlined in red, red-slashed capitals, some marginal red + paraphs. + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf and two paper flyleaves (the date 1767 appears on the verso of fol. + 1); at the rear, two paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf + (iv–vi).

+ + + + + + s. xv3/4 + + England + + + Camargo suggests that the scribe ‘Wylton’ should be identified with a man who took his + Oxford BCL before 1451; for him, see BRUO 2118. + ‘hic codex pertinet Iohanni lacocke’ (fol. 202v, lower margin; s. xvi in., + below an erased line, probably of ownership, illegible under ultraviolet + light). The script may be too late to support identification with Camargo’s + candidate, the lawyer described at BRUO 1081. + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

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+ + + + Briquet, C.M., ed. Allan Stevenson, Les filigranes: Dictionnaire + historique des marques du papier des leur apparition vers 1292 jusqu'en + 1600: A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material + contributed by a number of scholars, 4 vols. (Amsterdam, + 1968) + Camargo, Martin, Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition + (Binghampton, NY, 1995). + Emden, A. B., A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford + to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (Oxford. 1957-9). + Schanz, Martin, rev. Carl Hosius, Geschichte der Römischen + Literatur, 4th edn. 1 (Munich, n.d.). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

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Comprising ten separate MSS

+ + + all on vellum (all FSOS/FHHF, + except MSS 4 and 7–8, HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. iii + 114 + i + (numbered fol. iv). + 175 + 135 + + + + + + +

Brown leather over bookboard, s. xvi, with a blind-stamped border, partly + restored in the upper corner, perhaps suggesting a chain fitting removed. + The rolls are Oldham MW.d (10) (no. 872, + plate LI), used alone by an Oxford binder 1560–1613. Sewn on four thongs. Gold ‘188’ + at the head of the spine, very indistinct in black ink on the leading + edges. All three edges reddened. Pastedowns old vellum, a College + bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, three vellum flyleaves + from manuscript (the first has been used as a pastedown in an earlier + binding, and the second and third are a bifolium); at the rear, a single + vellum flyleaf from manuscript (iv).

+ + + + + + s. xiii + med.–xiv in., s. xv med + + England + + + ‘Carrius me possidet’ (fol. 114, + upper margin, s. xv/xvi) and ‘Christoferus + Carieus 20 Aug Cxo’ (partly cut off, + fol. 114v, the first inscription repeated below in italic, s. xvi ex.); the + same italic hand has added other pen-trials, and there are accounts for May and + June of an unspecified year (s. xvi). For discussion, see Andrew G. + Watson, ‘Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic Manuscripts, + and “John Carye”, The Library 5th ser. 20 (1965), 135–42 at + 136–7, 142. + ‘Nicolai Lynneby + Ioann Oxon’ (fol. 1, upper margin; and fol. 24). + ‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono + Nicolaj Linnebye socij + 1605’ (fol. iiiv). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

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+ + + + Burnett, Charles S. F., ‘Magister Johannes Hispanus: Towards the Identity + of a Toledan Translator’, in Comprendre et maîtrisier Ia nature au + moyen âge (Geneva, 1994), 425–36. + de Coussemaker, E., Scriptorum de Musica Medii Aevi Novum + Seriem 2 (Paris, 1867). + Curtze, Maximilian (ed.), Algorismus proportionum (Berlin, + 1868). + Curtze, Maximilian (ed.), Petri Philomeni de Dacia in Algorismum + vulgarem Johannis de Sacrabosco Commentarius (Copenhagen, + 1897). + Gerbert, Martin (ed.), Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica, + 3 vols. (St Blasien, 1784; rept. [Milan, 1931]). + Gunther, R. T. (ed.) Chaucer and Messahalla on the + Astrolabe (Oxford, 1929). + Halliwell, James Orchard (ed.) Rara mathematica (London, + 1839). + Huglo, Michel, Les Tonaires: Inventaire, analyse, + comparison (Paris, 1971). + Magrath, John R. (ed.), The Obituary Book of Queen’s College + Oxford, Oxford Historical Society 56 (1910) + Millas i Vallicrosa, J. (ed.), ‘Una obra desconocida de Johannes Avendaut + Hispanus’, Osiris 1 (1936), 451–75. + Moody, Ernest A., and Marshall Clagett (eds.), The Medieval + Science of Weights (Madison, Wis., 1952). + Oldham, J. Basil, English Blind-Stamped Bindings + (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952). + Sharpe, Richard, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain + and Ireland before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval + Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). + Thorndike, Lynn (ed.), The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its + Commentators (Chicago, 1949). + Thorndike, Lynn, and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of + Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd edn. (Cambridge, + Mass., 1963). + van Waesberghe, Jos. Smits (ed.) Cymbala (Bells in the Middle + Ages), Studies and Documents 1 (Rome, 1951). + van Waesberghe, Jos. Smits (ed.), Guidonis Aretini, + Micrologus, Corpus scriptorum de musica 4 (1955). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + Watson, Andrew G., ‘Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic + Manuscripts, and “John Carye”, The Library 5th ser. 20 + (1965), 135–42. + Wordsworth, Charles, The Ancient Kalendar of the University of + Oxford, Oxford Historical Society 45 (1903–4), 33–8, + 230–43. + + + + + + MS 188 - flyleaf + + + Flyleaf texts: + + Latin + + Fol. i + the contents leaf from a legal + MS, mounted upside down. The recto gives chapters from a text: + ‘Capitulum primum Quod sancta Ecclesia libera sit Capitulum secundum De + heredibus per seruit’ militar’ tenentibus Capitulum tercium De modo + eorundem faciendi homagia’. The verso starts with statutes, running from + Magna carta to Winchester, then has the standard tracts: Curia baronis, + both Henghams, Cadit assisa,… de Bastarda, ends with Assizes of Bread and + Beer, Fet aseuer, and the Register of Writs. s. xiii/xiv with some added + notes, mounted upside down. + + + Fol. ii: + drawings of faces and notes + + + Fol. iiv: + two sets of verses ‘Gnosia fecisset inopem sapienter amassos’ and ‘Si + potes et ceras remoue quam ymagine muta’ (OVID, Remedia + amoris, 745–9, 723–34, the latter written in the same hand as + the material on fol. 114). A diagram of concentric circles between the + two sets of verses. + + + Fol. iii: + Nota quod libra est nomen generale instrumenti siue brachia sunt + equalia siue non set equilibris est libra brachiorum + set huiusmodi diuisio usque ad vnitatem procedere ?uori + permittitur ut 12. 20. 24or. etc + In the hand of fols. 40 (in the same double column format with red + paraphs) and 107v. + + + Fol. iiiv + a diagram of the eye, its parts, and their connection to the brain + (?). + + + Fol. iv [mounted upside down]: + apparently from a legal + text, anglicana + s. + xiii/xiv. + + + + + + + Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–16 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 1ra–5ra: + Incipit algorismus + Omnia que a primeua rerum originem processerunt scilicet in + eo ratione numerorum + de radicum extractione sufficiant tam in numeris quadratis quam + cubicis + Explicit agorismus + JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO + Algorismus + (Sharpe, no. 865 [306]) (TK 1295), ed. Maximilian Curtze, + Petri Philomeni de Dacia in Algorismum vulgarem Johannis de + Sacrabosco Commentarius (Copenhagen, 1897), 1-19. + + + Fol. 5rab: + Si contingat quod compotum iactare debes dicitur de receptis uel + expenditis sic est agendum + nullo loco adenare usque adhuc uacuo remanente + + </msItem> + <msItem n="3" xml:id="St_Johns_College_MS_188-item3"> + <locus from="5r" to="13r">Fols. 5rb–13rb: </locus> + <rubric>Incipit tractatus de de <note type="editorial">[sic]</note> spera </rubric> + <incipit>Tractatum de spera 4. capitulis distinguimus dicentes primo quid + sit spera <gap reason="editorial"/> Spera igitur ab euclidi sic + describitur Spera est transitus circumferencie dimidii circuli </incipit> + <explicit>passione domini dixisse Aut deus nature patitur aut mundana + machina dissoluetur</explicit> + <finalRubric>Explicit tractatus de spera</finalRubric> + <author key="person_84975906">SACROBOSCO</author> + <title key="work_2592">Tractatus de Sphaera + ed. Lynn Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its + Commentators (Chicago, 1949), 76-117. + + + Fol. 13rb + Cum sapiencia sit magis inclita multiplicata │ Distribuentem reddit + habentem spernit auarum + Six verses (not in + Walther). + + + Fols. 13rb–14vb: + De tonorum agnitionibus et singularum differentiarum secundum + uarias incepciones compendiosam doctrinam propalare + continet minorem totum et insuper eius decimam octaua exceptam 27. + uersus + Fols. 15–16v are blank but ruled. + + + +

quas prius

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 16. + 1–28. + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In double columns, each column + + 125 + 38 + , with + 8 + mm between columns, in 44 lines. Prickings; bounded and + ruled in brown ink. + + + + Written in a small gothic textura quadrata of a university type, s. xiii2. Punctuation by point and punctus + elevatus. + + + Headings in red. + Texts headed by 2-or 3-line blue lombards on red + flourishing; within texts, similar capitals alternate with red ones on + blue flourishing, and red paraphs are used to break the texts. + + + + + s. xiii2 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 2 = Fols. 17–23 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 17ra–18va: + Incipit algorismus + Hec algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua │Talibus indorum fruimur + bis quinque figuris + sint pone sub una A dextris digitum seruando prius documentum + [colophon added later:] Explicit + algorismus + ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI + Algorismus + (Walther, no. 7470, listing 58 copies), ed. James + Orchard Halliwell, Rara mathematica (London, 1839), + 73–83. + + + Fol. 18va-vb: + Si sit continua progressis terminus impar │ + Per maius medium totalem + esse numeros unum tria v.que │ Et duo bis duo sex dicas tibi quatuor + esse + Three sets of further mathematical verses (Walther, no. 17974, where they are tentatively viewed + as a continuation of item 6). + + + Fols. 18vb–19va: + hic incipit ars tabularis + Formant fungonem feriatia gramata vii. │ alpha + betha duo + Hec eadem parua debet concordia queri │ Qua mediante potest quod + queris semper haberi + Verses on the use of + calendar tables (Walther, no. 6774), citing seven copies, + two in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS + 136. A concluding line added later: ‘Vt uideas quantum bisexti + distet ab anno’. Fols. 19vb–20rb are blank. + + + Fols. 20va–21ra: + Fallit amor cautos errant graue basia dantes │ Cultor erit gradus + vnde degens fiat amatus + Terminus hinc unus benedictus inde Matheus │ Solsticium cristum + decimum tenet atque iohannem + Walther, no. 6236, also in + CUL, MS Mm.iv.41, fol. 105. Fols. 21rb–23v are + blank; fol. 22 is ruled. + + + +

Illique

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 7 + 38 + (–6, a stub). + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In double columns, each column + + 126 + 46–8 + , with + 7 + mm between columns, in 45 lines to the column. + Prickings; bounded and ruled in black ink. + + + + Written in gothic + textura semiquadrata, s. xiii2, perhaps a continuation of the previous MS, very + similar in page format, although the hand differs. Punctuation by point at the line ends. + + + Headings in red, red-slashed capitals at the + head of each line. + + + + + s. xiii2 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 3 = Fols. 24–40 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 24ra–38vb: + IOHANNIS DE SACRO BOSCO noua compoti incipit compilacio + Compotus est sciencia considerans tempora ex solis et lune + motibus + septimane erunt in tempore quesito Ne tamen quandoque fallant + caueat sibi calculator + JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO + De anni ratione + Sharpe, no. 865 (306), ed. Libellus de anni + ratione seu ut uocatur uulgo Computus Ecclesiasticus + (Paris, 1550), fols. 5-53. Preceded by ‘Versus contra inuidos + Inuide quid laceras prosunt que carmina cunctis ’ (Walther, no. 9540, four + lines). In describing this MS, I have not cited readings from the + glosses. + + + Fol. 39rv: + Ad inueniendum dies egiptiacos in ianuario + Augo docens adam kalo cingens kapo nekam │ Abbas ceka cekas + eccen + Mobilis ibo cifos modo liber habeto coenos + + + Fol. 40ra-va: + Si esset centrum solaris circuli in medio celi essent solsticia in + principio cancri et capricorni + equinoccio et tunc respondebit eleuationi solis astrolabium circa + meridiem Explicit + TK 1448, also in CUL, MS Kk.i.1, fol. + 105rv. Fol. 40vb is blank. + + + +

ordine

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 17 + 410 + 56+1 (+3, pasted to a stub). + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + Item 10 in double columns, each + column + 125 + 38 + , with + 8 + mm between columns, in 44 lines to the page. Prickings; + bounded and ruled in black ink. + Item 11 writing area + 125 + 65 + . In long lines, 15–21 lines to the page, with variable + spacing for an interlinear gloss. No prickings; bounded in brown ink, + no rules. + Item 12 in double columns, each + column + 125 + 38 + , with + 9 + mm between columns, in 45 lines to the column. No + prickings; bounded in lead, no rules. + + + + Item 10 written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii med. or xiii2, with extensive glosses in a tiny + hand of s. + xiii ex. (a few in a hand of early s. xv?). Punctuation by + point and punctus elevatus. + Item 11 written in another gothic textura, s. xiii med. + + Item 12 written in gothic textura semiquadrata, which resembles the late glossing + hand of text 8 (possibly s. xv). + + + In text 10, headings in red, many + unfilled. + Alternate red and blue lombards on flourishing of + the other colour, 4-line at the incipit, 2-line for internal + divisions. + The text divided by red paraphs. + Frequent diagrams in red, green, and black, + one illustration (fol. 28ra) of the ‘serpent of the year’. + In text 11, a heading in red, red-slashed + capitals at line-openings, a few of the glosses in red. + + + + + s. xiii med. + or xiii2 (item 10) + s. xiii ex. and early s. xv? (additions to item + 10) + s. xiii med. + (item 11) + s. xv (item + 12) + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 4 = Fols. 41–50 + + + + Latin + + Fol. 41ra–vb: + Hec tabula prima tabula terminorum dicitur quoniam in illa termini + festorum mobilium per ordinem inueniuntur + Vera autem coniunctio est cum corpus unius fuerit sub corpore + alterius + ‘Exposicio calendarii’ (so TK 607). + Followed (fols. 42–9v) by the tables and a calendar (fols. 44ff), the + latter with Oxford additions, + s. xv (14 January noted as the start of Hilary Term, 12 February as the + ‘translatio sancte fredeswyde’ and 15 May her invention). Ed., in + part, John R. Magrath, The Obituary Book of Queen’s College + Oxford, Oxford Historical Society 56 (1910), 121–6; + see the further discussion in Charles Wordsworth, The + Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford, Oxford + Historical Society 45 (1903–4), 33–8, 230–43. Since the author + of these additions identifies 20 October with ‘Dedicatio colegij marie magdalene’, he has been + taken to be attached to that college. Fol. 50rv is blank. + + + +

Ciclus

+ + + vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. 10 + 610. + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In double columns, each column + + 128 + 38 + , with + 8 + mm between columns, in 44 lines to the page. No + prickings; the text bounded and ruled in lead, the tables and calendar + in red ink. + + + + Written in another contemporary textura, with later additions in the calendar. + + + + Red arabesque capitals at textual divisions, red + paraphs for subsidiary units. + The table and calendar in red and green inks, + entries headed by 1-line red, blue, and green lombards. + + + + + s. xiii + (text) + s. xv (additions) + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 5 = Fols. 51–7 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 51–3: + Si fuerit canonium simmetrum magnitudine et substancie eiusdem + diuidaturque in duas partes + [fol. 52v] et uirtute propor + cio una erunt eiusdem generis + ‘Liber de canonio’ (so TK 1449) + ed. Ernest A. Moody and Marshall Clagett, The Medieval + Science of Weights (Madison, Wis., 1952), 64–74, + where our copy is unnoted (and not very similar). A text on balances, + with a gloss; only two text and three gloss lines on fol. 53, the verso + probably originally blank. + + + Fol. 53v + [an added text?]: a table for equivalent measures, ‘Nomina Minutiarum + Quot vncias habet etc.’, with verbal explanation of equivalents at the + foot: ‘Denarius stater et siclus unum et idem sunt Denarius enim constat + ex 10 nummis Stater ex 20 obulis ’ + + + Fols. 54–5: + Omnis ponderosi motum esse ad medium quod grauisuus est + uelocius descendere + sit a centro differencia secundum hunc situm eque grauia + fient + JORDANUS + Elementa super demonstrationem + ponderum + (TK 1000) + ed. Moody and Clagett, 128–32, breaking off at line 102. + Again with a gloss. Fols. 55v–7v are blank. + + + +

uero

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 7 + 78 + (–7, a stub and probably blank). No + catchwords + or signatures. + + + Writing area + 128 + 78 + , with a + 35 + mm leading-edge column for diagrams. Written in long + lines, about 27 text lines to the page, the gloss line half that of + the text. No prickings; bounded and ruled in brown crayon. + + + + Each of the three texts in a different + hand: two are gothic texturas, quadrata and + semiquadrata respectively, the third an anglicana-tinged textura of s. xiii/xiv. Punctuation by + point and occasional punctus elevatus in both text and + gloss. + + + + + + + + s. + xiii/xiv + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 6 = Fols. 58–61 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 58ra–60rb + Intentio huius auctoris est tractare de 7. discriminibus uocum + ypallage et de 7. discretis uocibus ostendendo quomodo musice + uoces + Contus Miter Curuus Virga Claudicans Ascendens Pes Abusi he + sunt + A commentary on GUIDO OF AREZZO, Micrologus (TK 760), + presented as an introduction to item 18. Fols. 60v–1v are blank, fol. 60v + partly ruled, but in a format resembling that of MS 5. + + + +

et prima

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 4 + 84. + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In double columns, each column + + 125 + 46 + , with + 9 + mm between columns, in 51 lines to the column. + Fragmentary prickings; bounded and ruled in brown crayon. + + + + Written in gothic + textura semiquadrata, s. xiii2. Punctuation by point + and occasional punctus + elevatus. + + + + + s. xiii2 + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 7 = Fols. 62–96 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 62–76v: + Ratio Musice uel prologus + Musica dicitur a potu myson id est a querendo quia primitus + Incipit micrologus sermo GUYDONIS in musica + Gymnasio musas placuit reuocare solutas Ut pateant paruis habite + uix + Epistola eiusdem ad theodaldum aretine │ + [fol. 62v] Diuini timoris tociusque + prudencie fulgore clarissimo dulcissimo patri et reuerentissimo domino + Theodaldo GUIDO suorum monachorum utinam + minimus quicquid seruus et filius Cum solitarie uite saltim modicam + exequi cupiam quantitatem nostre benignitas dignatio + [fol. 63v] Incipit primum + Igitur qui nostram disciplinam petit aliquantos cantus nostris + descriptos addiscat + ipso doctore semper humanas tenebras ilustrante cuius summa + sapiencia per cuncta uiget secula Amen + GUIDO OF AREZZO + Micrologus + ed. Jos. Smits van Waesberghe, Corpus scriptorum de + musica 4 (1955) 79–233, with a description of our MS + at 44-6. A chapter table appears between the letter and the text. + + + Fols. 76v–7v: + Musicam disciplinam non esse contempnendam multa et antiquorum + gentilium uidelicet et sanctorum + et rursus alii huiusmodi dispositio quorum extremi + tripli + AURELIANUS monachus REOMENSIS + 'Musicae disciplina’ + (TK 898), chs. 1–2 only, ed. Martin Gerbert, + Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica, 3 vols. (St + Blasien, 1784; rept. [Milan, 1931]), 1:29–32. + + + Fols. 78–82: + Gliscunt corda meis hominum mollita camenis │ Vna mihi uirtus + numeratos Musicorum ut cantorum magna est + distancia Isti dicunt illi sciunt que componat carmina + Defert alterius cum suscipit altera uires Inde duo signum uariant + loca cuius ad ipsum + GUIDO + Regulae rhythmicae + ed. Gerbert, 2:25–34. + + + Fols. 82–3v: + Temporibus nostris super omnes homines fatui sunt cantores In omni + enim arte ualde plura sunt que + Facili coloquio in ipsa neumarum figura monstratur si sicut debent + ex industria componantur + GUIDO + ‘Praefatio in antiphonarium’ + ed. Gerbert, 2:34–7. + + + Fols. 84–9v: + Beatissimo atque dilectissimo fratri M W per amfractus multos + deiectus et actus aut dura sunt tempora aut diuine dispositionis obscura + discrimina + cuius liber non cantonbus sed solis philosophis utilis + est + GUIDO + <title>Regule de ignotu cantu or ‘Epistola + Michaeli monacho’, + ed. Gerbert, 2:43–50. + + + Fols. 89v–90: + Omnes autenti quinto loco a se principia seu fines distinctionum + mittunt venturus uero sexto + venturus uero autenticus usque ad suppositum semitonium et tritus + deponitur + Dyapason quid est Dyapason est quelibet uox grauis cum acuta + resonant unice + unam eademque principio et fine disiunctionum partium + sillabarumque disiungit + Two brief tracts, separated from the preceding one by only a painted + initial; they also occur together in Cambridge, Trinity + College MS R.15.22, fol. 138rv. + + + + Fols. 90–3: + Primum querite regnum dei [marked + interlinearly with letters as notes] Ob indicium primi toni hec + antiphona ponitur + quam iudice aut intimorum auribus tecum amabiliter queso conlatura + commitas + According to van Waesberghe, in part a discussion of the score printed + in E. de Coussemaker, Scriptorum de Musica Medii Aevi Novum + Seriem 2 (Paris, 1867), 87. See further Michel + Huglo, Les Tonaires: Inventaire, analyse, comparison + (Paris, 1971), 192. + + + Fol. 93rv: + Fistulam longissimam quante longitudinis latitudinis ne uelut + facito ita tamen ut omnia mediocriter fiant + easdem fistulas a prioribus ita ut secundum dyapason a prirno + mensus est + ‘Mensura fistulam’ + the text also appears in Trinity R.15.22, fols. + 126–8. + + + Fols. 93v–4: + Quicumque cimbala uult facere recte consonantia ad cantandum ad + unumquodque debet ceram diuidere + nichilque deesse dyateisaron et vyapente atque dyapason + ‘Mensura cymbalarum’ + ed. van Waesberghe, Cymbala (Bells in the Middle + Ages), Studies and Documents 1 (Rome, 1951), 54–5, + also using the copy in Trinity R.15.22, fol. + 131rv. + + + Fols. 94–5v: + Ut dabis nunc rationem quare per alias uero uel discrepantes sint + uel adeo + fiunt 22. ad 33. 3. et sic infinitum horum descriptio quo + dicuntur + Identified by van Waesberghe as excerpts from a commentary on + HUCBALD monachus + ELNONENSIS, Musica Enchirialis, the text + ed. Gerbert, 1:192–4. + + + + Fols. 95v–6: + De natura modorum pauca aperiamus Primus uero modus finem + suum + propter semitonium Octauus in F et G a b c Hec tibi dicta placent + formis si sedulus absis + Fol. 96v was originally blank. + + + Added text: + + Fol. 96v: + Hec sunt de disciplinis et sapiencijs PTOLOMEI + Conueniens est intelligenti pro deo vercundari cum ea que non + sunt grata cogitate + Anima ignorans socio suo magis inimicatur + hec in prohemmio almagesti sapientis PTHOLOMEI + Proverbs from the Almagest (TK 263 cite + the same incipit from Munich, Bayerische + Staatsbibliothek, MS CLM 9683, fols. 62ra–5rb). In anglicana, s. xv med. or xv3/4, the same hand which wrote + item 32 (fols. 109–10v). + + + + +

peruenerit

+ + + vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. 35. + 9–128 134 (–4, a stub, probably + blank). No catchwords + or signatures. + + + Writing area + 130 + 74 + , a central text column between two gloss columns, the + inner column + 21 + mm wide, the leading-edge one 32 mm wide. In 26 long + lines to the page (the text; 51 lines for the gloss). Bounded and + ruled in black ink. + + + + Written in textura + semiquadrata, s. xiii med. + + + Two- to 4-line alternate blue and red lombards on + flourishing of the other colour (some flourishing not completed), + frequent 1-line in-text lombards to break the texts. + Headings in red, but most blanks unfilled (all + after fol. 72v). + + + + + s. xiii + med. + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 8 = Fols. 97–104 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 97ra–8rb: + Cvm uolueris scire in quo signo sit sol et + quot gradus perambulauerit ex eo + pone gradum solis super lineam emisperii occidentalis et fac sicut + predictum est + MESSAHALA + Practica astrolabii + (TK 356), ed. R. T. Gunther, Chaucer and + Messahalla on the Astrolabe (Oxford, 1929), 217–31. + The remainder of the column filled with notes added s. xiv + in., and the verso originally blank, now filled with a table of stellar angles and with angles + for a variety of locales, including Oxford, London, Canterbury added s. xiv1. + + + Fol. 99ra–101va: + Cum uolueris hec scire accipe altitudinem et + constue + constitue + 12. domos deinde aspice + scitur quantum transitur de annis cristi ex annis arabii si deus + uoluerit + A further series of astronomical + operations; a later s. xiv hand has numbered fols. 97–101va + as 30 chapters, the succeeding section numbered ‘31 et 1’. The text may + break here, or extend to fol. 102ra: ‘Capitulum 31 + in scienti altitudinis turrium et celorum talium que eleuantur—ipsum et + radicem rei et quod exierit erit longitudo inter utrasque’. + + + Fols. 102ra–4vb: + Incipiunt sentencie de diuersis libris excepte + in quibus exponuntur equationes multe dubitaciones [these two words marked for transposition] + + Qui ad astronomie scienciam desiderat peruenire Quicumque ad eius + dulcedinem cupit pertingere + finitus fuerit numerus tuus in eodem intrabit mensis quam uolueris + si deus voluerit + JOHN ‘HISPANUS’ + 'Scientia annorum Arabum et de annis + domini’ + (TK 1203), ed. J. Millas i Vallicrosa, ‘Una obra + desconocida de Johannes Avendaut Hispanus’, Osiris 1 + (1936), 451–75 at 459–62 only, collating our MS against the + copy in Madrid, Biblioteca nacionale MS 10053. On + the author, see Charles S. F. Burnett, ‘Magister Johannes Hispanus: + Towards the Identity of a Toledan Translator’, in Comprendre et + maîtrisier Ia nature au moyen âge (Geneva, 1994), 425–36, + this text mentioned at 429. Nearly all of fol. 103v and all of + fol. 104 were originally blank, now filled with astronomical notes, in + anglicana + s. xiv1, probably by the hand responsible + for the chapter numeration in item 30. The text is followed by two + further added notes, one by the hand of fols. 103v–4, at the foot of the + page. + + + +

-eris scire

+ + + vellum (HSOS/HFFH). + Fols. 8. + 148. + No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In double columns, each column + + 140 + 38–42 + , with + 5 + mm between columns, in 51 lines to the column (ample + margins left for glosses). No prickings; bounded and ruled in brown + crayon. + + + + Written in gothic + textura semiquadrata, s. xiv in. Punctuation by + point, medial + point, and punctus + elevatus. + + + Blanks for capitals unfilled and no headings; + diagrams in text ink. + + + + + s. xiv + in. + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 9 = Fols. 105–8 + + + + Latin + + +

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Probably comprised of binding materials, with no main text items, but + a series of medical and astronomical notes. Fols. 105, 107, and 108 are + blank (fol. 107 has two pen-trials). On fol. 108v a fragment of a + booklist, s. + xiii ex., comprised mostly of scientific and classical texts (a + few with incipits cited), inc. ‘ + Macbiu + Macrobium + Cum in Affrica venit │ Gondisalmi de anima Cum omnes homines │ + Timeum platonis Socrates │ Seneca de moribus et de paupertate │ vque epistolas dindimi et Alexandri Sepius ad + aures ’

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 4. + 154. + + + + + + s. xiii + ex. + + England + + + + + + + + Manuscript 10 = Fols. 109–14 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 109–10v: + Algorismum proporcionum presul Meldensis + phillipe quod pictagoram dicerem si fas esset credere sentenciam eius de + riditu animarum Vna medietas sic scribitur 1/2 + vna 3a sic 1/3 et due tercie sic + residuum que quidem remaneret subtrahendo totum a toto et hoc est + facile + NICOLE ORESME + Algorismum proporcionum + (TK 80, 506, 1596), breaking off after the eighth rule of + the first tract, ed. E. L. W. M. Curtze (Berlin, 1868), pp. 13–18 + (the edition lacks the brief prologue). The remainder was + originally blank, now with added notes: fol. 113v on astronomy; fol. 114 excerpts from + OVID ‘libro + primo sine titulo’, inc. ‘Militat omnis amans et habet sua castra cupido’ + [Amores 1.9.1, some further excerpts + from book 2]; one bit added in another hand ‘Est qui nequiciam locus + exigat omnibus illum │ Deliciis imple sit procul + inde pudor ’ [Amores 3.14.17]. Fol. 114 was a pastedown in + an earlier binding. + + + +

Proporcionem

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. 6 + + 134 + 91 + + 166. No catchwords + or signatures. + + + In long lines, 42 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded in brown crayon but unruled. + + + + Written in anglicana, + s. xv + med., the same hand which added item (g) on fol. 96v. + Punctuation by occasional point. + + + Blanks for capitals unfilled; a red lombard and a + red paraph in the first paragraph. + + + + + s. xv + med. + + England + + + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

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Comprising three originally separate MSS

+

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+ + + Comprising three originally separate MSS, all on vellum (the second + HSOS/HFFH, the others FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. iii + 376 (numbered fols. + 1–375, iv) + ii (numbered fols. v–vi). + 162 + 117 + + + Borders cut away on fols. 77 and 97. + + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf, one modern paper flyleaf, and one medieval vellum fiyleaf at the + rear, a modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled leaf (v–vi).

+ + + + + + s. xv med., + part dated 1450 + + France + and Italy variously + + + Contents list, s. xv/xvi (fol. + iiiv). + Part of a verse (fol. ivv, s. xvi). + ‘Liber Collegij Divi Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono + Domini Gulielmi Paddei + Militis et ejusdem Collegii olim Convictoris 1634’ (fol. 2, upper + margin). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G., and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British + Museum, 8 vols. (London, 1909). + Choulant, Louis (ed.), Carmina Medica (Leipzig, + 1826). + Demaître, Luke, ‘The Relevance of Futility: Jordanus de Turre (fl. + 1313–1335) on the Treatment of Leprosy’, Bulletin of the History of + Medicine 70 (1996), 25–61. + Hain, L., Repertorium bibliographicum, 8 vols. (Stuttgart, + 1826–38, repr. Milan, 1948), with Supplement by W. A. + Copinger (London, 1895–1902; repr. Milan, 1950). + Kibre, Pearl, Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic + Writings in the Latin Middle Ages, rev edn. (New York: Fordham + University Press, 1985). + Thorndike, Lynn, and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of + Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd edn. (Cambridge, + Mass., 1963). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + + + + + + Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–76 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 1–31v: + Quoniam secundum doctrinam G 3o de + ingenio sicut sciencia operandi ab essencia morbi finitur ita + coxi uirere aloen ana vncia 1. etsi buthiri quod sufficit ficit + emplastrum Deo gracias + Explicit paruus tractatus GUIDONIS super + antidotario + 'Paruus tractatus super antidotario' + Perhaps GUY OF + CHAULIAC (so TK 1301), another copy Poitiers, BM, MS 185, fol. 13. Fol. 32rv is blank but + ruled. + + + Fols. 33–76v: + Intendens venerabilis amice bernarde componere librum in quo tradam + omnium concedente datore plenam doctrinam + [fol. 33v, the text] Attende quod in omni + opere medicus debet supponere circam intencionem + tibi graciam specialem qui tibi donet graciam suam mihi aut veniam + peccatorum qui sit benedictus in secula seculorum amen + LANFRANC OF MILAN + Cyrurgia parva + (TK 757), ed. Cyrurgia Guidonis de + Cauliaco (Venice, 23 December 1499) (Hain + 4812*, BMC5:575) 171ra–75vb. + + + +

aque ros’

+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + + Fols. 76. + 110 + 58 + + 1–48 + [fol. 32, a booklet boundary] | 5–98 + 104. + Catchwords in scrolls, most cut away. + Only one early signature (fol. 19 = c iij), but in booklet 2 all leaves in the + first half of each quire signed with a letter and a roman numeral, + many cut away; in this system, quires 5, 8–9 = a, + d–e. + + + In long lines, 25 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded and ruled in purple and pinkish inks. + + + + Written in French lettre + bâtarde, i.e., bastard secretary + s. xv2. Punctuation by point and virgula. + + + At heads of the two texts of the MS, a 5-line + champe with simple bar extensions and full floral demivinet on the other + three sides of the page, in green, gold, blue, and pink (the first champe + green, blue, and gold leaf). + Spaces for rubrics unfilled. + At chapter heads, alternate 2-line lombards, blue + on red flourishing and gold leaf on purple flourishing. + The text divided by alternate red and blue paraphs + and ochre-slashed capitals (occasional ochre-slashed top line extenders, + some elaborated into snake shapes). + In the margin fol. 23v, drawings of surgical + implements. + See AT, no. 762 (75), dating 1450 at Avignon on the basis of fol. 125v; + with ‘fine borders in the same style added, fols. 291–372, to an Italian + MS of s. xiii2/4’, and plate xlv (fol. + 105). + + + + + s. xv2 + France + + + + + + + Manuscript 2 = Fols. 77–292 + + + + Latin + + Fols. 77–96v: + Ut de operatione manuali librum componerem breuiorem scilicet et + apciore quam composuerim Andree tuam mihi peticionem + paduanensis lazare + [fol. 77v, the text] De sermone + naturali in vulneribus + Primus canon seu Regula que in omnibus occurrit vulneribus est Ut + sanguis refrenetur + ad remedium tocius corporis Et cum fit etiam in concauitate pedis + valet ad podagram + Explicit parua Syrurgia BRUNI + BRUNO LONGOBURGENSIS + Cyrurgia minor + (TK 1122; 1615 for the prologue), ed. Cyrurgia + Guidonis, 94ra–96vb. + + + Fols. 97–104v: + Incipiunt anforisimi IOHANNIS DAMASCENI + Liberet te deus fili amantissime a deuio erroris et in via + conseruet prosperitatis + non per omnia habeo ceptum opus non negligere hortor per quod idem + nunis letificasti + Amphorismorum finis DAMASCENI + JOHN DAMASCENUS + Anforisimi + TK 824, ed. Aphorismi excellentissimi Raby Moyses + [Maimonides] (Bologna, 28 May 1489) pt. 2 (Hain + 10524*, BMC 6:824), sigs. A i–A v. + + + Fols. 105–25v: + Incipiunt Amphorisimi seu parabule magistri ARNAUDI DE VILLANOUA + Omnis medela procedit a summo bono Qui Iuste ac vtiliter voluerit + medicari + Sapiencie igitur ad exemplum illius premiss reducit in parabolas oportunas + Expliciunt amphorismi seu parabole magistri ARNALDI DE NOUA + VILLA per me Io duraund compagnoni tunc in Ciuitate Auinion’ et in camera + venerabilis viri domini Jacobi oboli canonici sancti petrj degen MoCCCClmo. deo + gracias + ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA + 'Amphorisimi seu parabule' + TK 999, ed. Opera (Basel, 1585), + 913–1038. + + + Fols. 126–7 + Isti versus statim sequentes ostendunt et demonstrant cognoscere + quatuor complexiones + Fleuma superueniens propria in corpore leges | Artus suspend’ + lacerni + aut elephancia pestis | Hinc pars maiores hinc mortificacio partis + Expliciunt versus de quatuor humoribus + TK 565, 566 and + Walter, no. 6606 (cf. BL, MSS Royal 12 + D.xiii, fol. 209; or Sloane 783B, fol. + 179), in part excerpted from the ‘Schola Salerni’. Fols. + 127v–8v are blank but ruled. + + + Fols. 129–255v: + Incipit codicillus Magistri BERNARDI DE + GORDONIO + Circa omnium egritudinum genera Triplex modus + curatonis + curationis + occurrit Primus est per exhibitionem + desiccabitur Informentur Inde trocissi et bene desiccati vsui + reseruentur finis + BERNARD DE GORDON + Codicillus + TK 217 (perhaps another text with the same incipit). There is a + thoroughly obliterated inscription at the foot of fol. 255v, and fol. 256 + is blank but ruled. + + + Fols. 256v–63: + Incipiunt versus vrinarum EGIDIJ + Dicitur vrina quoniam fit renibus vna | Aut ab vrit grece + ne casta reuelet | Fibria monstratur quam non est tangere dignus + Expliciunt versus EGIDII de vrinis + GILES OF CORBEIL + De urinis + (TK 422), ed. Louis Choulant, Carmina Medica + (Leipzig, 1826), 4–18. Written by a new scribe; introduced by + only a 4-line champe and with a plainer border; alternate 1-line lombards + and red paraphs. + + + Fols. 263–70: + Sequntur versus eiusdem de pulsibus + Ingenii vires modicis conatibus impar | Materies onerosa + exponens diuite vena | Iam sterilem cultum philareti nominis + horret + GILES + De Pulsibus + (TK 744), ed. Choulant, 28–43. + + + Fols. 270–84v: + Sequntur versus eiusdem super antidotarium de syrupo + rosarum + Syrupus ex rosis In febre valet peracuta | Quartana terreo + stomaco + veramque diurnam | Fastidium tollit stomachi chimis ab acutis + Expliciunt versus de vtilitatibus medicinarum compositarum + secundum antidotarium ARNOLDI DE VILLANOUA. + ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA + 'Antidotiarum' + Cited TK 1510 and not in Walther (nor ed. by Choulant). + + + Fols. 285–91v: + Cognoscuntur leprosi quinque modis scilicet ab vrina a pulsu a + sanguine a voce + [fol. 287] Si autem appareant signa + melancolie erit species que vocatur elephantia + Quoniam autem omnis operatio medicaminum secundum rectam viam que + sumitur + nisi mundificatiua cutis et per medicinas fortes quas ponunt + doctores Deo gracias + JORDANUS DE TURRE + tract on leprosy + the first part ed. as ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA, ‘Signa leprosorum’ (TK + 232), Opera, 1520–4; the second part (not in TK) ed. + Luke Demaître, ‘The Relevance of Futility: Jordanus de Turre (fl. + 1313–1335) on the Treatment of Leprosy’, Bulletin of the + History of Medicine 70 (1996), 25–61 at 54–61. At + the end, most of fol. 291v and all fol. 292v blank but ruled. At the + head, a space for a 3-line initial unfilled; perhaps an unexccuted + planned border (the top lines blank). Rules in pinkish ink. + + + +

flebotomia

+ + + vellum (HSOS/HFFH) + Fols. 216. + 108 + 58 + + 1112 128 [fol. 96, a booklet + boundary] | 138 [fol. 104, a booklet + boundary] | 14–168 [fol. 128, a booklet + boundary] | 17–2712 2810 2914 [to + fol. 284, a booklet boundary] | 308. + Within continuous sections, catchwords near the gutter, + usually in red half-boxes. + Signatures only in the fourth booklet (arabic + numerals on the first three leaves of the fifth): all leaves in the + first half of each quire signed with a letter and a roman numeral + (arabic on a few occasions); in this system, quires 17–27 = a–?k. These signatures have been imposed on + an earlier system which signed sheets, rather than bifolia, and + which did not assign numerals (which usually appear to have been + added) to the leaves. + + + + In long lines, 29 lines to the page. Prickings; + bounded and ruled in purple ink. + + + + Written in French cursiva (secretary), s. xv3/4 (a new scribe probably takes + over at fol. 105). Punctuation by point + and double virgula. + + + Headings in red. + Seven-line champes at initia, with full borders + (some cut away). That at fol. 105 in light green and pink with minimal + gold-work; that at fol. 129 12-line, with the opening word as part of the + painting, and with a blazon worked into the gold, now + illegible. + At chapter heads, 3- and 4-line alternate + lombards, blue on red flourishing and gold leaf on purple + flourishing. + The texts divided by alternate red and blue paraphs + and, in booklet 4, some ochre-slashed capitals. + + + + + s. xv3/4 + France + + + + + + + Manuscript 3 = Fols. 292–375, iv + + + + Latin + + Fols. 293–304: + Medicina diuidit diuiditur [sic] in + duas partes scilicet in theoricam et practicam Quarum theorica + diuiditur + cognicio quinque modis sit qualitatis quantitatis temporis ordinis + boni mauve discretione + HUNAIN IBN ISHAQ + Isagoge in Tegni Galieni + (TK 856), ed. Articella, 1:2ra–4va. The repetition in + the incipit, hereafter ignored, results from the lack of coordination + between the scribe and the rubricator producing a painted display + opening. + + + Fols. 304v–32: + Tres sunt omnes doctrine que ordine habentur prima quidem ex finis + notione + et perscribens quot sint et qualia determinabo orationern in + eis + GALEN + Ars parva/Microtechne + (TK 1585), ending in 3.214, ed. Articella, + 3:84va–153rb. Fol. 332v is blank but ruled; the foot of both the recto + and the verso have added medical + notes and distinctions. + + + Fols. 333–46: + Uita breuis ars uero longa tempus acututum experimentum fallax + iudicium difficile + non existente in collo suffocatio repente inuascatur et deglutire + non posset mortale + HIPPOCRATES + Aphorismi + in the translation of CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN, ending 7.59, ed. + Articella, 2:1ra–139ra. Our MS is unnoted in Kibre’s + Hippocrates Latinus. Each section introduced by a + 1-line red or blue lombard. Fol. 346v is blank. + + + Fols. 347–54v: + Omnis qui medicine studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum + consequi desiderat copiam + nostro numero dierum nostrorum quoquo sunt exposite ordine + preceptorum + HIPPOCRATES + Prognostics + also translated by CONSTANTINE, ed. Articella, 2:141ra–67va. + + + + Fols. 354v–65: + De urinarum differencia negocium multi ueterum medicorum agressi + sunt scribere + quidem disciplina et secundum genera et species et differencias + conuenienter exposuimus + THEOPHILUS + De urinis + (TK 393), ed. Articella, 1:5rb–7vb. + + + Fols. 365v–7v: + [unfilled blank for decorated text opening] habemus in presenti conscriptione de pulsuum negocio compendiosam + expositionem tradere + in una diastole differenter facere motiones vt + [later CW: capra saliens] + + PHILARETUS + De pulsibus + (TK 764), ed. Articella, 1:4ra–5rb (nearly complete). + The text breaks off at the foot of a page, and fol. 368 is blank and + appears to be a modern supply. + + + Fols. 369–75: + [unfilled blank for decorated text + opening] + accidentibus in singulis egritudinibus + tractantes poenis consensisse feruntur eos quidem in hiis + hiis minus congruus est qui solo dictantur potu sed illis + aliquando conueniens est + Explicit liber YPOCRATIS perion oxion noxomaton + HIPPOCRATES + The Regimen in acutis morbis, + translated by CONSTANTINE, ending in a gloss-like explanation of 2.52, + ed. Articella, 3:1ra–19rb. Fol. 375v was originally blank, + now filled with medical + materials; the leaf appears to have been originally waste, cut + from a larger leaf in multiple columns with an index of herb + simples. + + + +

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+ + + vellum (FSOS/FHHF) + + Fols. 85. + 110 + 60 + + An accurate medieval foliation, numbering fols. 293–374 to + fol. lxxxij (most cut away). + 31–344 + 358 36–394 [fol. 332, a booklet boundary] | 40–484 [fol. 368, a booklet boundary] | 494 502 (? now + both single) 512 (followed by a + stub). + One catchword (fol. 364v), no + signatures. + + + In long lines, 30 lines to the page. No + prickings; bounded and ruled in lead and black ink. + + + + Written in Italian (?) gothic textura quadrata, s. xiii + in. (above top line), one scribe for fols. 293–343, 347–64v; a + second for fols. 343v–6; a third for fols. 365–75. Punctuation by point, medial + point, and punctus + elevatus. + + + At the head of the first text, an 8-line champe, + with the opening line painted in alternating red and blue lombards. (The + rubricator filled the whole line, even if this involved duplication of + the text already copied.) + Provided with a floral border, s. xv. + The last few texts have spaces for this treatment + but are not filled. + At chapter heads, 2-line alternate red and blue + lombards with minimal touches in the other colour; the text broken with + 1-line unflourished examples. + + + + + s. xiii + in. + Italy(?) + + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_200.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_200.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2c367a6dc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_200.xml @@ -0,0 +1,568 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 200 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_200 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 200 + + Theological notebook + + Latin + + Fols. 1–4v: + Compendium compoti + Ad euidenciam eorum que sunt neccesaria de kalendario in comuni vsu + primo videndum est de composicione kalendarii + vltima dies computacionis erit dies egra Nota tamen quod h non + computetur pro littera Explicit + Identified by A. Cordoliani, ‘Les manuscrits de comput des + bibliothèques d’Utrecht’, Scriptorium 15 (1961), 76–85 at + 79, as a commentary on ALEXANDER OF VILLA DEI, ‘Massa compoti’. In the first three texts, a + variety of theological notes + (most of them proverbs) in the upper and lower margins. + + + Fols. 4v–8v: + Cathedra e est sedes episcopi Hic tronus ni est sedes dei Hoc tribunal + alis est sedes Iudicis + Aurora dicitur ethemologice quasi aurea hora Aurum dicitur a greco + audeliden quod interpretatur audicio + An etymological glossary for the + Psalter. Perhaps incomplete, simply breaking off at the end of + quire 1, originally part of a more extensive booklet. + + + Fols. 9–29: + Hic continentur duodecim abusiones + claustri + Duodecim sunt abusiones claustri quibus tota religionis summa + corrumpitur Prelatus negligens Discipulus inobediens Iuuenis ociosus + Ex hiis igitur obseruancie mandatis pendet summa tocius + religionis + HUGH OF FOUILLY + De claustro animae + 2.11–23, ed. PL 176: 1058–86. + + + Fols. 29–32v: + Hec sunt extracta de veteri ordinali Per aduentum domini El per + Quadragesimam + Gloria in excelsis in missa dimmittitur Et te deum ad matutinam hac + racione Quamuis boni serui cum gaudio + totis viribus humilitatem diligamus atque ornamenta morum non + uestimentorum etc. + Notes on feast-day liturgy + including one reference to BEDE. + + + Fols. 33–64v: + Extracta de omeliis venerabilis BEDE presbiteri + Dixit dominus ihesus dicipulis suis parabolam hanc Simile est regnum + celorum homini paterfamilias Per denarium qui + laborantibus in vinea promittitur + et omnia pergunt ad mundiales De terra facta sunt et in terram + pariter reuertuntur + BEDE + Homiliae euangelii + Consists of about sixty excerpts. Fol. 48v includes the incipit of a + sermon (?), ‘Dixit iesus + dicipulis suis Estote misericordes sicut et pater ’, and the added leaf, fol. 49v, apparently provides a preferred + alternative version of the same; fol. 49 is blank. + + + Fols. 64v–5: + Salamonis liber in quo hec scripta sunt eclesiastes appellatur + Eclesiastes autem propter concionator dicitur + Et nisi me desieritis corporaliter cernere nunquam me discetis + spiritualiter diligere + Primarily consisting of excerpts ascribed to GREGORY. + + + Fol. 65v: + Quam vtiliter sanctus Augustinus desudauerit in ecclesia + Milleflorentissima a se condita approbant + fideli opere mundat corpus et animam et omnem custodit + salutem + Theological notes. + + + Fols. 66–94v: + Extracta de sermonibus magistri PETRI LUMBARDI dominica ja. aduentus dei + Aspiciebam ego in visione noctis etc. Triplex est visio scilicet visio + noctis visio diei + aduentu duplicatur et vnum desuper quod est illi gracias referendo + semper reddere valcamus Explicit + About thirty extracts, the last followed by a four-line poem, inc. + ‘Petrus eram quem petra tegit dictusque comestor ’ + (Walther, no. 14050), which identifies the author, not as + the Lombard, but PETER COMESTOR. + But the initial three sermons do + not appear in Schneyer, much less among the writings of either + Peter. + + + Fols. 94v–5v: + Ewangelium in die pasce + Maria magdalene et maria Iacobi Querituri + quidnam sit quod in dextera parte sepulcri angelus sedere + se vicisse crediderunt Nomen illius sequaci extinxisse gauisi + sunt + + + Fol. 95v: + Maritus peccat cum marito + Quinque modis peccat maritus cum marito Vnde versus Tempore + facto Mente Loco Condicione Modo + aliqua causa prolis Modo sicut ordine preposito + + + Fol. 95v: + Nota vij. sacramenta? + Septem sunt sacramenta ecclesiastica que possunt agnosci per hunc + Abluo firmo cibo piget vxor ordinat vnguit + ordo ministrancium coniugium laborancium Extrema vnccio + descedentium + With the ‘versus’, cf. + Walther, no. 177. + + + Fols. 95v–6: + De confessione + Ad principium dicat sacerdos confitenti frater uenisti ad me causa + salutis tue + regna diaboli Sicut dicit apostolus Sancti per fidem vicerunt regna + etc + + + Fols. 96–7: + vij. articuli fidei + Septem sunt articuli fidei scilicet Incarnacio Natiuitas Passio + Inferni spoliacio Resureccio Ascensio + cum aliquis intendat aliquid accipere preter sortem ex vi + mutui + A rather random series of theological + notes. + + + Fol. 97: + Queritur quomodo deus hominem genuerit Dauid Nichil aliud est deus + deum genuit nisi de igne + ipse est utique in secunda qui splendebat in prima + + + Fol. 97rv: + O quantis proderit et quantis e contrario oberit loci huius + oportunitas + quantum necessitas poscit non quantum cupiditas + concupiscit + + + Fol. 97v: + Ieiunare et vigilare et mores non corigere sic est quomodo si aliquis + extra vineam + ad initium domini iubentis de sepulcris suis exilient + + + Fols. 98–101: + Si fideliter atque sapienter creacione nostre intelligamus exordium + inueniemus hominem + arbor non habens poma cuius tocius fructu pietatis inuenietur + aliena + + + Fols. 101v–21v: + Extracta de natiuitate domini de sermone LEONIS pape + Saluator noster dilectissimi nobis natus est gaudeamus Neque enim + locum fas est esse tercie ubi natalis est vite + tribunal domini proderit quod indicimus quod rogamus + Explicit + LEO I + Sermones + (CPL 1657), ed. Antoine Chavasse, CC 138–38A + (1973), excerpts from at least sermons 21, 31, 39, and 65 + (incipits at 85, 161, 211, and 395 respectively). + + + Fols. 122–5v: + Extracta [the remainder of the heading + blank] + Timor domini principium sapiencie Sapienciam atque doctrinam stulti + despiciunt Habe fiduciam in domino ex toto corde tuo + eleuatus est in sullime si enim intellexisset ora manum + imposuisset + + + Fols. 125v–6: + Extracta de libro + ecciast’ + eccliast’ + salomonis + Peruersi difficile corigunt et stultorum infinitus est numerus Locutus + sum in corde meo + [fol. 125v] mundo et | immundo + immolanti victimas et sacrifica contemptenti + Ecclesiastes (extracts) + The incipit is 1:15, the explicit 9:2. + + + Fols. 126–7v: + Respicite filii naciones hominum et scitote quia nullus sperauit in + domino et confusus est permansit in mandatis eius + Regnum celorum non est inuidorum Qui assidue rixantur a paucis + amantur Explicit + + + Fols. 128–41: + Extracta super regulam clericorum + Ad hoc nobis diuina precepta leguntur quatinus lecta intelligantur + intellecta opere compleantur + Renouamini mundi estote et iterum Noster homo renouatur de die in + diem + HUGH OF ST VICTOR + 'Expositio in regulam beati Augustini’ + ed. PL 176:881–924. + + + Fols. 141v–5v: + [the space for the heading + unfilled] + Clamat nobis diuina scriptura dicens Omnis qui se exaltat humiliabitur + et e conuerso In quantum enim humilior fueris tantum sequitur te altitudo + gracie + per sinistra consilia sic incitat ut allidat sic armat ut + puniat + A rather random bunch of theological + notes, with extra lines packed in on fol. 145v so as to end on + the leaf. + + + Fols. 146–54v: + Quedam extracta de decretis + Q I. Lex est constitucio scripta Mos autem longa consuctudo de moribus + tracta + parauit ad requiem hoc ei mutasti occulto iudicio ad + perturbacionem + Although the incipit is indeed GRATIAN (Decretum 1, dist. 1, + chs. 3–4 [CJCan 1:1]), the text becomes, first, a sequence of + citations from GREGORY and + SMARAGDUS OF ST-MIHIEL, then + rather random notes. + + + Fols. 154v–66v: + Extracta de glosulis super epistolas pauli + Principia rerum requirenda sunt prius ut earum noticia plenior possit + haberi + in subiectorum in neccesitationibus ex fictis sibi iniquitatibus + campum parant Explicit + + + Fols. 167–89v: + Extracta de glosulis super psalterium + Prophetia est diuina inspiracio que rerum euentus aut per visiones aut + per facta + ix. species est ignea vincula que singulis membris + constringuntur + Followed by a verse ‘Quantus + millenis centenis iiij. annis | Nexus in inferno fuit adam crimine Illud’ + (not in Walther). + + + Fols. 189v–95: + Panis in scriptura sacra vj. modis accipitur Quandoque ipse dominus + aliquando spiritualis gracia + ut semper a creaturis suis honoretur et magnificetur + dominus + More theological notes, + concluding with a discussion of the meaning of ‘Gloria patri’. + + + Fols. 195–7: + De sancto Nicholao + Generosus et graciosa forma spectabilis quidam iuuenis qui et uersibus + et metris + et erranti clerico dolorum solamen wlnus et medicina latro et + samaritanus Explicit + A text with similar incipit appears in Cambridge, Corpus + Christi College MS 161, fol. 23. + + + Fols. 197–203: + Extracta de libro penitenciali + Nota de fide catholica Catholica fides est que simbolo catholico + continetur quo tanquam fidei signaculo + ut nunquam careant suplicio qui in hac uita nunquam voluerunt carere + peccato Explicit + A small series of extracts added by the scribe following the explicit, + inc. ‘inuisibiles aduersarii et incorporales hostes non erunt ’, the first ascribed to ‘papa leo in sermone’. + + + Fols. 203v–8: + De confessione + Confessio debet esse Voluntaria Sicut enim homo voluntarie peccat ita + voluntarie debet penitere + Paucorum est forcia et occulta cognoscere multorum historie aperta + sentire + Further assorted theological + notes, beginning with a distinctio; the original seems to have + broken off as indicated, and the remainder are the scribe/owner’s further + additions, bits of notes running on to fol. 208v. + + + Fols. 208v–10v: + Semper quasi timentes fiuctus super me domini + timui et pondus eius ferre non potui Verba ista uerba sunt illius qui + uermibus scatens Iacet in sterquilinio + serui autem facti deo Finem uero vitam eternam Ad quam nos perducere + dignetur Ihesus cristus etc. + + + +

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+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. iv + 216 + iii (numbered fols. + v–vii). Fol. 191 is assigned to a tipped-in vellum tab, and fols. 211–16 + are an extraneous quire. + 158 + 115 + + + 115–25 + 82 + + + 1–58 68+1 (+9; see item 5 above) 7–88 98 (2, fol. + 67, now sewn to a stub) 10–238 248+1 (+6, a tab) 25–268 276? (the final leaf is + probably not part of the quire). + No signatures + or catchwords. Arguably composed as a series of + booklets, with theological notes typically added by the scribe on + originally blank concluding leaves. In this reading, the MS was produced + as six units, with sections ending at fols. 8 (quire 1), 65 (quires 2–8), + 97 (quires 9–12), 121 (quires 13–15), 145 (quires 16–18; note the textual + packing on the final page here), and 210 (quires 19–26). + + + In long lines, 29 lines to the page. No prickings; + bounded and ruled in lead. + + + + Written in anglicana, with frequent single-compartment a. Punctuation by medial point and + punctus elevatus. + + + Headings in red, consistent throughout, as are + 2-and 3- line unflourished red lombards at the heads of texts. + One-line red lombards and red-slashed capitals + to divide the texts. + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf (dated ‘1772’ on the verso), two modern paper flyleaves, and a + medieval vellum flyleaf; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and + another marbled paper leaf (v–vii).

+ + + + + + s. xiii ex. or + xiii/xiv + + England + + + ‘Iohannes + whyte de Suthwyke in Comitatu Sutht Armiger dedit hunc librum + Thome white de london’ milit’ ad + vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in Oxon Anno 1555’ (fol. ivv, below a + contemporary contents table in rubric). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) with a correction of a typographic error in + the note for item 1. + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Chavasse, Antoine (ed.), Sancti Leonis Magni romani pontificis + tractatus septem et nonaginta, Corpus Christianorum 138-38A + (Turnhout: Brepols, 1973) + Cordoliani, A., ‘Les manuscrits de comput des bibliothèques d’Utrecht’, + Scriptorium 15 (1961), 76–85. + Dekkers, Eligius, and Aemilius Gaar, Clavis patrum + latinorum, 3rd edn. (Turnhout, 1995). + Friedberg et al., Corpus Juris Canonici, 2 vols. (Leipzig, + 1879–81). + Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Patrologia Latina 176 (Paris, + 1854). + Schneyer, Johannes Baptist, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones + des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols. (Münster i. + W., 1969-90). + Walther, Hans, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris + Latinorum, 2nd edn (Göttingen, 1969). + + + + + + MS 200 - added quire (fols. 211–16) + + + + Latin + + Fols. 211–15v: + Fides dei gracia preueniens que preparat uires ipsius anime uel + peccaces ad bonum + omnis uirtus politica operatur secundum discrecionem et rectam + racionem perfecte uel inperfecte + Theological notes + an added note on the nature of virtue in the blank lower half of fol. + 215v; fol. 216 has further notes in the same hand, but appears to have + been cut down from a larger page; fol. 216v has a cut-down contemporary + copy of a deed, dated + Christmas 53 Henry III (1269) between John, + son of John le Buer, and his mother Cecilia, on the one part, and John, vicar of the church of Estynderl’ + [?? Enderby, Leics.], in + which the former give the latter ‘totam illam particulam + que uocatur esgroue’. + + + + + + Written to virtually the full page, writing + area + 43 + 98 + . In long lines, about 43 lines to the page. No + prickings, bounds, or rules. + + + + Written in early anglicana, s. xiii ex. or s. xiii/xiv. + + + + + s. xiii ex. + or s. xiii/xiv + + + + + + + MS 200 - Flyleaf text + + + + Latin + + fol. iv: + Letatus sum in his [covered by a paper + strip] dicta sunt michi in domum domini ibimus Officium Deus tu + conuerten uiuificabis nos que plebs + The lower part of a waste leaf from a noted service book, the staves present in red but + the notes not filled in; written on the recto only. + + + + + + Vellum + + + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_257.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_257.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..449fa7b1d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_257.xml @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 257 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_257 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 257 + + Statutes of England + + French, Latin, and English + + Fols. 1–63: + accusacions Nvll soit attache par ao corps + ne sez biens ne terrez seisez + fuist fete pur’ Wurstede a durer pur trois ans Anno xxo. H vjti. Capitulo + x. + An alphabetical index by topic to statutes + Edward III–Henry VI + cf. Ker, MMBL 1:18, 190. Fol. 63v is blank + but bounded and ruled. + + + Fols. 64–85: + Incipit statutum apud Buri sancti Edmundi editum anno xxvto + Nostre senur le Roy a son’ parlement tenuz a Bury seint Edmond’ en la + feste de seinte Scolast + suorum sibi dissensorum quia sit lex istius terre vult quod tunc ipsi + haberent + Expliciunt statuta Regis henrici sexti + Statutes of 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 39 Henry VI, ed. + Statutes of the Realm, 2:344–79. Fol. 85v is + blank except for the rubric to item 3. + + + Fols. 85v–142v: + Incipiunt statuta Regis Edwardi iiiiti. + | [fol. 86] Edward’ par la grace de Dieu + Roy Dengleterre et de Fraunce et senur Dirlond’ puis la conqueste quart al + honour de Dieu et de seinte Eglise + maner’ chose luy apparteignant ou en ascun’ maner’ fourme + regardaunt + Expliciunt statuta Regis Edwardi quarti’ + Statutes of Edward IV + ed. Statutes, 2:380–476. Fol. 143 is + blank. + + + Fols. 143v–54: + Richard par la grace de Dieu Roy Dengleterre et de Fraunce et segnur + Dirland’ puis le conquest tierce al honour de Dieu et de Seint + Eglise + tout oustrement descharge et acquite deschargez et acquitez pur toutz + iours + Statutes of Richard III + ed. Statutes, 2:477–98. Fols. 154v–5v are + blank, fol. 155 bounded and ruled. + + + Fols. 156–68 + Henry par la grace de Dieu Roy Dengleterre et de Fraunce et segnur + Dirland’ au parlement tenuz a Westmonstier le septisme jour de + Nouembre + terres et tenementes soient donqes tout outrement voidez et de null + effette + Statutes of 1 and 3 Henry VII (in French) + ed. Statutes, 2:499–506. Fol. 168v is + blank. + + + Fol. 169–221: + To the worship of God and of all holy Chirche And for the comen wele + and profit of this Reame of Englond Our Souereyn’ lord Henry + to be as wel of the Deynzenis as of foreyns and Straungers + Statutes of 4–11 Henry VII (in English) +

ed. Statutes, 2:524–79 (Ker describes the text as + ‘peculiar’ and like BodL, MS Hatton 10).

Fols. 221v–4v are blank, but + bounded and ruled. Fols. 225–50 are ruled as the preceding booklet + through fol. 242, usually in brown crayon; in the final quire, the same + page format has usually been imposed in stylus. Originally blank, now + with added memoranda; after fol. 243 the pages show much heavier signs of + wear than elsewhere.

 + + + Added text (see also Provenance below): + + fols. 243–6: + Herafter do insue the good ordinaunces and Rules made as well by the + kynges Iustices of this said Courte of the comen place in tyme past + Ordinaciones sequentes irrotulantur Termino sancte Trinitatis Anno + Regis Henrici vjti. post conquestum xxxvto. + [fol. 243v] after discression of the + Iuges where any suche defaute shall happen to falle | + [fol. 244] Prothonatoryes for Entrees + of plees and Iugementes In primis for euery comyn declaracion comen plee + in barre comen replicacion + they can no thyng aske of dutie but of Curtesie at the pleasure of + the partie + Ed. Margaret Hastings, The Court of Common Pleas in + Fifteenth Century England (Ithaca, NY, 1947), 249–55 + (ending in the section on ‘Cryours’), from a MS in the Public Record + Office. Hastings refers vaguely to three copies of this text, none of + them our MS. Added in a hand of s. xvi/xvii. + + + + +

A full description at Ker, MMBL + 3:701–2.

+

Anno secundo (fol. 5)

+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. xix + 250 + xx (numbered fols. + 251, xx–xxxviii). + 217 + 180 + + + 173 (165–8 after fol. 169, the head of + quire 23) + 115 + + + 18 (–2; fols. 1, + 4–9; fols. 2–3 misbound here from quire 5) 28 + (1 and 2 reversed in binding; fols. 11, 10, 12–17) 3–48 (fols. 18–33) 58 + (fols 34–6, 2–3, 37–9) 6–88 [fol. 63, a + booklet boundary] | 9–108 116 [fol. 85, a booklet boundary] | 12–198 206 [fol. 155, a + booklet boundary] 218 228 (–6, –7, –8, cancelled blanks after fol. + 168) [fol. 168, a booklet boundary] | 23–298 + [fol. 224, a booklet boundary] | 306 318 3212. + No catchwords + or signatures. + The lower margins of fols. 5–7 cut away, no text loss. + + + + In long lines, 34 and 35 lines (fols. 207–21, + in quires 26–9) to the page. No prickings; bounded and ruled in + lead. + + + + Written in legal + anglicana (‘court hand’); in his unsubmitted Oxford D.Phil. + thesis, the late Jeremy Griffiths identified our scribe with the hand of + BodL, MS Hatton 10 and more than twenty other copies of the + New Statutes. Punctuation by occasional point. + + + Five-line champes, including some of a greenish tinge, + with floral pattern and flower, leaf, and bud sprays at the head of each + parliament. Leaf patterns but no green in Statutes of Edward IV, becoming a + bit crude near the end; in the first part of Statutes of Henry VII, the + champe hand of Edward IV returns, but part 2 of Henry VII in a different + hand, using extensive gold leaf and often rather minimal blue/violet, with + white-shaped leaf outlines. The border sprays here also appear to be by a + different hand than earlier. + Headings in decorative textura. + Chapters of the statutes are divided by blue paraphs, + with the chapter number, headed by a red paraph, in the leading edge margin. + Running titles (preceded by red and blue paraphs) to + identify the regnal year and monarch. + At the head of the index, a 5-line champe with leaf + and bud sprays to form a demivinet. + Alternating red and blue paraphs to separate topics + and the subordinate entries. + Five-line champes with floral sprays at the head of + each alphabetical letter. + Fully illuminated pages at the head of each + reign. Scott discusses the prolific London illuminators and border artists + associated with a group of apparently mass-produced Statute MSS c.1470–86, + of which this is but one example, at 2:319, 329, 345. + Ker cites Hunt Exhib, fig. 74 (102; Hatton 10, fol. 290) and Scott’s discussion there. The + illuminations include: + Fol. 86, a 12-line historiated initial: Edward IV + enthroned between lords spiritual (on the left) and temporal, within a full + vinet of leaves, vines, and flowers; at the page foot in the border the + royal arms, England quartering France modern. + Fol. 143v: a similar depiction of Richard III, with + royal arms (a different set of artists, for both the border and the + miniature). + Fol. 156: a similar depiction of Henry VII, in a red + robe, with royal arms (resembling the Richard III artists). + See AT, no. 621 (61), saying Harvard University + Library, MS Richardson 40 ‘is closest in script and illumination’, and plate + xxxvi (fol. 86). + + + +

Brown leather over millboards, s. xviii; with a stamped gold achievement + of arms (no supporters); see Provenance below. The spine has been + rebacked. Sewn on five thongs. Gold ‘257’ at the head of the spine; red + and black speckles on all edges. Pastedowns are modern paper, a College + bookplate on the front pastedown. At the front, nineteen modern paper + flyleaves; at the rear, a vellum flyleaf (probably a former pastedown) + and nineteen further paper flyleaves (251, xx–xxxviii).

+ + + + + + s. + xv/xvi + + England + + + ‘Pascha xxvjto. henrici viijui. Ro S lxxxij. viij. li’ (fol. 251). + A memo indicating ownership by + someone responsible for royal records c.1544: ‘Memorandum that there ys owyng + to Thomas grene of Audenham for the Caryage of the + kinges recordes From seynt albons to Westm’ after the terme of saynt + Michell anno xxxvto. henrici viij. there holden and + fynysshid xj. s viij. d’ (fol. 249v). + ‘Anno secundo Edwardi quarti nuper + Regis Angi’ etc.’ (fol. 97v, upper margin; s. xvi?). + ‘Iacobus Dyer Miles + Capitalis Iustic’ domine Regine Elizabeth uiuit + duodecimo etc.’ (fol. 241v, partly cut away; court hand, s. xvi ex.). For + James Dyer (d. 1582), speaker of the + House of Commons in 1553 and justice of the king’s and queen’s bench from 1558, + see BRUO 1501–40, pp. 180–1. + A list of legal books (s. xvi ex.), + with three older inscriptions below (fol. 251); see Ker for + details. + Termino sancti Michaelis anno regni + domini Iacobi quartodecimo et Scocie quinquagesimo + etc. CC xlijo. Memorandum quod dominus Rex nunc + predicto vicesimo quinto die Novembris isto eodem Termino mand’ Iustic’ suis + hic litteras suas’, with a text of the writ in English (fol. 238v; court hand, + s. xvii in.). + Below two erased signatures, one + partially legible as ‘Lawrence ’: ‘Wyllyam Iohns’ twice; and a + distich: ‘Tria sunt que non paciuntur iocum Oculus Fama Pecunia Oculus ne + ledetur Fama ne denigretur Pecunia ne auferetur’ (fol. 247v; court hand, s. + xvii). + The proverb ‘Multi famam consienciam + paucivorentur’ (s. xvi ex.) and near the page foot (s. xvii italic) + ‘ius legis cristus omni + credenti’ (fol. 249v). + Accounts: ‘Paid vnto Master’ Hall + Item for iij. quarters of a C. of [spot]elyn + borde for the Wyndowe in the Tresor hows ’, below a + set of entries for ‘The Comon’ place’ (fol. 250v, s. xvii?). + On the binding, the arms of Francklin + (of Gonalston, Notts.); Sr + John Francklin’ and + ‘Dorothea Francklin’ (fol. 1, upper margin; s. + xix). + The old shelfmarks ‘A.10.14’ in red, corrected to ‘9.16’ (on the + bookplate, front pastedown). + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G. and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Hastings, Margaret (ed.), The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth + Century England (Ithaca, NY, 1947). + Ker, N. R., Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. 4 + vols. (Oxford, 1969-92). + de la Mare, A. C., and B. C. Barker Benfield (eds.), Manuscripts + at Oxford: An Exhibition in Memory of Richard William Hunt + (1908-1979) (Oxford, 1980). + Scott, Kathleen L., Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490. 2 + vols. (London, 1996) + The statutes of the realm... volume 2 (1816, repr. + 1963). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_293.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_293.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6e6dc5298a --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_293.xml @@ -0,0 +1,275 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 293 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_293 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 293 + + Psalter + + Latin + + Fols. 2–7v: + The calendar + with graded feasts in black, red, and blue. In red are ‘cathedra sancti + Petri’ (22 February), Erkenwald (30 April); George first written in + incorrectly at 22, not 23 April and then expunged (as is Becket and the + title ‘papa’ here and there). Erkenwald is suggestive of London provenance. + + + Fols. 8–138v: + Seruite domino Amen Pro fidei Amen Psalmus Beatus uir qui non abijt in + consilio impiorum et in uia peccatorum + laudate eum in cymbalis iubilacionis omnis spiritus laudet + dominum + The Psalter + (arranged with interspersed anthems for liturgical use). Lacks Ps. + 37:12–38:2 in a lost folio after fol. 44, probably cut out for the + decoration of Ps. 38, the head of a nocturn. + + + Fols. 138v–48v: + Confitebor tibi domine quoniam iratus es michi + in eternum irascaris nobis et ne des hereditatem tuam in perdicione + propter nomen sanctum tuum + The twelve canticles, ending with the Athanasian Creed and a brief + anthem. + + + Fols. 148v–54v: + Kyrieleyson Cristeleyson Criste audi nos Pater de celis deus Miserere + nobis + Sancta corona ora Sancta sexburga ora Omnes sancte uirgines orate + Omnes sancti orate + Sarum litanies, one for each day of the week, with six prayers after + ‘Deus cui proprium’, as in BrevSar, 2:250–60. Eight lines at + the foot of the final page are blank. + + + +

Fully described at Ker, MMBL + 3:704–5.

+

subsannabit (fol. 9)

+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. iii (numbered fols. i–ii, 1) + 153 (numbered fols. 2–154) + iii (numbered + fols. iii–v). + 245 + 162 + + + 160 + 115 + Cut close by the binder, except for the decorated pages + (e.g., fol. 8 measures 259 x 179 mm overall); these have been cut along + the gutter so as to be folded down to the size of the current + page-block. + + 16 2–58 + 68(–6) 7–88 + 96 (the two central bifolia bound in + reverse order; the text should run fols. 63, 65, 64, 67, 66, 68) 108 118(–6, a + cancel with no text loss) 12–138 148 (–6, another cancel) 158 (–1, another cancel) 16–198 208+1 (+9, + pasted on). + No catchwords + or signatures. + The lower margins of fols. 16–24 variously cut away. + Water-spotting in the lower corners, no text damage. + + + In long lines, 22 lines to the page. No prickings; + bounded and ruled in red and reddish-brown ink. + + + + Written in gothic + textura semiquadrata, perhaps more than one scribe. Punctuation by + point and punctus + elevatus. + + + Psalms introduced by 2-line champes with sprays; + verses divided by 1-line lombards, alternately blue on red flourishing and + gold leaf on blue flourishing. + Rather plain blue and gold-leaf line-fillers at the + end of verses. + Some musical staves, introduced with swag capitals + with penwork animals and heads, discussed at Scott, 1:37 and + illustrated in her figures 24–6 (fols. 11v, 51, 66v); figure 25 + illustrates what may be the atelier’s identifying mark (see 1:65 n. + 4). + At the head of the Psalms, a half-page illumination, a + 5-line champe in gold leaf, blue and violet with green leaves, and a full + vinet in the same with sprays and flowers, with similar decoration for the + nocturns. + Illuminations include: Fol. 8, a half-page illustration: David in a wood kneeling to + God, who is nimbed in a dark blue robe and holding David’s crown and + harp. + Fol. 31v (Ps. 26), a half-page illustration: + crowned David in a wood prying open a lion’s mouth with a dog or fox + skulking in the foreground. + Fol. 56 (Ps. + 51), a half-page illustration: David enthroned gesturing at a fool playing + with two pointed sticks or swords. + Fol. 57 (Ps. + 52), a half-page illustration: three women (coloured as Faith, Hope, and + Charity), emerging from a castle towards David brandishing Goliath’s head on + a sword. + Fol. 68 (Ps. + 68), a historiated 8-line initial: Saul enthroned striking at David, in + crown and dunce’s cap, with his harp, standing in the waters, on gold-leaf + ground. + Fol. 80v (Ps. 80), a similar historiated + initial: a bishop in purple marrying (?) David and Michal, with two flanking + horn-players. + Fol. 93 (Ps. + 97), a 6-line historiated initial: two priests carrying the ark and David + walking alongside with a hand organ. + Fol. 106 + (Ps. 109), a similar historiated initial: David enthroned with his harp, + three men copying music into books. + Scott views the illumination programme + (1:56, 2:168) as directly imitative of the Bedford Psalter (BL, MS Additional 42131) and the illuminator as sharing + stylistic traits with the illustrator of a mid-century copy of Lydgate’s + Troy Book, Manchester John Rylands Library + MS Eng. 1 (2:262). Our MS is one of the very few she surveys to + illustrate Ps. 51 (2:379). + See AT no. 494 (49) and plate xxix (fol. 57). + + + +

Brown leather over millboards, s. xvii; stamped binding with flower and + leaf border, chain-like pattern with open lozenges at centre and corners. + Sewn on five thongs. Red leather title plate in the upper spine + compartment with gold-stamped ‘Psalt Rom’. Gold ‘293’ at the head of the + spine. Marks suggesting ties at head of the boards. Pastedowns modern + paper, a College bookplate and the previous owner’s (see Provenance + below) on the front pastedown. At the front, two modern paper flyleaves + and one medieval vellum one; at the rear, a medieval vellum flyleaf and + two modern paper flyleaves (iii–v).

+ + + + + + s. xv + med. + + England + + + ‘Liber Gulielmi + smalwoode socij collegij diui Iohannis Baptiste + Oxoniae 1557’ (fol. 1); similarly ‘W. + Smallwoode’ (fol. 8, upper margin); ‘William + Smallwoode 1553’ (fol. 32v, over an erased rubric); two more examples in the + border-work fol. 57, one dated 1557 and a + further one on fol. 68. Smallwood was a + Fellow of Magdalen 1552–6 and of St John’s 1557–66. + ‘ hathe + bene and shall be ye popes owne derlynge’ (fol. 109, upper margin, the first line mostly + cut away; s. xvi ex.). + Another note about William Smallwood, mostly cancelled, + apparently attacking him for papistry, twice dated 1551 and part at least + signed ‘PM.’ (fol. 152, in the blank at + the page foot). + Armorial bookplate of Godfrey + Heathcote on the front pastedown. + Purchased 1952. + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) (with a correction to the folio reference for + item 1) + + + +

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

+ + + + Alexander, J. J. G. and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts + in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + Ker, N. R.,Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. 4 + vols. (Oxford, 1969-92). + Proctor, Francis and Christopher Wordsworth (eds.), Breviarum ad + usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum, 3 vols. (Cambridge, + 1882–6). + Scott, Kathleen L.Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490. 2 + vols. (London, 1996). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

+ + + diff --git a/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_82.xml b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_82.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f018a2f048 --- /dev/null +++ b/collections/St_Johns_College/St_Johns_College_MS_82.xml @@ -0,0 +1,439 @@ + + + + + + + + St John's College MS. 82 + St John's College MSS. (in progress) + + Cataloguer + Ralph Hanna + + + Encoding + Sian Witherden + + + + TEI P5 + Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson + Family Charitable Trust + + + Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries +
+ Special Collections + Bodleian Libraries + University of Oxford + Weston Library, Broad Street + Oxford + OX1 3BG + United Kingdom +
+ + specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk + + St_Johns_College_MS_82 + St_Johns_College + Western + + + + + Oxford + St John's College (in progress) + St John's College MS. 82 + + Hours of the Virgin with Psalter + + Latin + + Fols. 1–12v: +

Tables and calendar: solar tables for 1482–1519 (fols. 1–2v), lunar + tables (fol. 3, columns for various English ports, from Bristol to + Berwick), dominical letters (1322–1853, fol. 3v), the calendar proper + (fols. 4–9), planetary hours (fol. 10), lunar signs (fol. 10v), the + degree of the moon in the various signs (fol. 11), solar tables continued + 1520–57 (fols. 11v–12v).

The calendar includes, as red-letter + feasts, a wide conspectus of English saints. AT, no. 814 + (81) draw attention to the inclusion (14 November) of the + translation of Erkenwald and suggest that this implies production + specifically for London use. + But some other entries for non-Salisbury observances may imply that this + is too specific an identification; cf. the feast and translation of + Osmund bishop (28 February and 16 July) and the translation of king + Oswald (8 October). Fol. 13 is blank, a singleton with the verso painted. +

+ + + + Fols. 14–19: + Incipiunt quindecim oraciones ad cristum + O Ihesu criste eterna dulcedo te amantium iubilus excedens omne + gaudium + te merear laudare cum omnibus sanctis tuis in eternum Amen + 'The fifteen ooes of St Bridget' + ed. Horae Eboracenses, Surtees Society 132 (1920), + 76–80. + + + Fols. 19–28v: + De sancta trinitate + O domine deus omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus sanctus da michi + famulo tuo N uictoriam + ipsam colentibus a te promeruit specialiter impetrare Per cristum + dominum nostrum amen Pater noster Aue etc. + Suffrages for fifteen saints: the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, + John the Evangelist, Becket (badly defaced), George, Christopher, Antony, + Roche, Sebastian, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Margaret, Barbara. Fol. + 29 is blank, the verso painted. + + + Fols. 30–60v: + Incipiunt hore beate marie uirginis secundum usum sarum + Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annunciabit laudem tuam + Sic labori consonans consors sim corone Amen Benedicamus domino Deo + gracias + Suffrages after Lauds for the Holy Spirit, Trinity, the Cross, Michael, + John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Becket (partly defaced), Andrew, Stephen, + Laurence, Nicholas, Patrick, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, Margaret, + and for peace. Two-thirds of the page left blank at the ends of Sext and + Vespers (fols. 53v, 57v). + + + Fols. 60v–1v: + Ad salutandum beatam uirginem mariam + Salue regina mater misericordie uita dulcedo et spes nostra + salue + [fol. 61] et a mor | te perpetua + liberemur per cristum dominum nostrum amen + + + Fols. 61v–7: + Incipiunt quinque gaudia beate marie + Gaude uirgo mater cristi que per aurem concepisti gabrieli nuncio Deus qui beatissimam uirginem mariam in conceptu et + partu + [fol. 62v] Gaude flore uirginali honoreque + speciali transcendis splendiferum [fol. 63] Dulcissime domine ihesu criste qui + beatissimam genitricem tuam + [fol. 63v] Stella celi extirpauit quc lactauit + dominum mortis pestem Deus misericordie deus + pietatis deus indulgencie qui misertus + + [fol. 64] Ad beatam mariam + Obsecro te domina sancta maria mater dei omni pietate plenissima [fol. 66] O Intemerata + et in eternum benedicta singularis et incomparabilis uirgo dei + [fol. 67] filio coeternus et + consubstantialis cum | eis et in eis [form ending] Amen + + + Fols. 67v–9v: + Quicumque hec septem gaudia in honore beate marie uirginis semel in die + + Uirgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et + misericordie + tu benedicta in eternum permanes cum ihesu cristo filio tuo in secula + seculorum Amen + A devotion to the seven joys. Fol. 70 is blank, a singleton with the + verso painted. + + + Fols. 71–7v: + Incipiunt septem psalmi penitenciales antiphona + Ne reminiscaris + psalmus + Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me neque in ira tua corripias me + Miserere mei domine + omnes qui tribulant animam meam quoniam ego seruus tuus sum Gloria + patri + + + Fols. 77–9: + Incipiunt xv. psalmi + Ad dominum cum tribularer clamaui etc. Psalmus dauid Leuaui oculos + meos in + ne in eternum irascaris nobis et ne des hereditatem tuam in + perdicionem + In the main, incipits only. + + + Fols. 79v–85: + Letania sanctorum + Kyrieleyson Cristeleyson Kyriel’ [cancelled in + rubricator’s red] Criste audi nos Pater de celis deus Miserere + nobis Fili redemptor + uiuis ac defunctis in terra uiuentium uitam et requiem eternam + concede Per eundem cristum dominum nostrum Amen + Includes Gildard, Medard, Albinus, Swithin, and Birinus among confessors; + Scholastica, Petronella, Genevieve, Praxed, Sother, Prisca, Tecla, Afra, and + Edith among virgins. + + + Fols. 86–105: + Incipiunt uigilie mortuorum Antiphona + Placebo + Psalmus + Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus uocem orationis mee + a peccatis omnibus exuas et tue redempcionis facias esse participes + Qui cum [form ending] Amen versus Requiescant + in pace Amen + The Office of the Dead; before the first nocturn, collects ‘Pro corpore + presenti’, ‘In anniuersarijs’, ‘in die trigintali’, ‘Pro episcopis + defunctis’, ‘Pro fratribus et sororibus’. + + + Fols. 105v–16: + Beati immaculati in uia qui ambulant in lege domini Beati + qui + admiserunt tu uenia misericordissime pietatis absterge Per cristum + domirium nostrum Amen Requiescant inpace Amen + The psalm of commendation (118) and Ps. 138, followed by a brief prayer, + ‘Tibi domine commendamus animam famuli tui N et animas famulorum...’ + + + Fols. 116–20v: + Sequitur psalterium de passione domini + | [fol. 116v] Deus deus meus respice in me quare me dereliquisti longe + a salute mea + commendo spiritum meum redemisti me domine deus ueritatis Gloria + patri et filio et spiritu sancto etc + The Psalms of the Passion (21–30, 6), with added prayers (fols. 121–4v), + beginning with that ascribed to BEDE: ‘Domine ihesu criste qui septem uerba die ultimo uite + tue in cruce pendens [fol. 122] Precor te piissime + domine ihesu criste propter illam caritatem qua tu rex [fol. 122v, prayer with papal indulgences gained by + king Philip of France] Domine ihesu criste qui hanc sacratissimam carnem + tuam et preciosissimum sanguinem [fol. 123v, + prayer with indulgences granted by John XXII and written behind the high + altar of St Peter’s] Auete omnes cristifideles anime quarum corpora hic et + ubique…Domine ihesu criste salus et liberacio animarum fidelium [fol. 124] Suscipe digneris domine sancte pater + omnipotens eterne deus hos psalmos tibi consecratos [fol. 124v] Oramus pro uniuerso ecclesiastico gradu deo militantibus + episcopis—ut exaudire merear ante conspectum diuine magestatis tue Amen’. + Fol. 125 is blank, a singleton with the verso painted. + + + Fols. 126–271: + Hunc psalmum primum fecit esdras quando renouauit legem domini + combustam + Beatus uir qui non abijt in consilio impiorum et in uia + peccatorum + laudate eum in cymbalis iubilacionis omnis spiritus laudet dominum + The Psalter. + + + Fols. 271–2: + Sequitur oracio deuota ad cristum + Liberator animarum mundi redemptor ihesu criste domine deus eterne rex + immortalis + michi peccatori famulo tuo N et omnibus cristianis cultoribus + catholice fidei Amen + + + Fols. 272–86: + Canticum ysaye + Confitebor tibi domine quoniam iratus es michi conuersus est furor + tuus + [fol. 285v] quam nisi quisque fideliter + firmiterque crediderit saluus esse non poterit | Antiphona Ne reminiscaris + domine delicta nostra uel parentum nostrorum etc. cum Letania ut + supra + Canticles, the standard set of twelve ending with the Athanasian Creed + (‘Benedicite’ follows the ‘Te deum’, and ‘Magnificat’ follows ‘Benedictus’). + Fol. 286 has only two lines of text, although the page is fully bounded and + ruled; it is now pasted to a paper sheet. + + + +

dimencio (fol. 15)

+ + + Vellum (FSOS/FHHF). + Fols. iv + 286 + i + (numbered fol. v). + 274 + 195 + + + 155 + 105 + + + 112+1 + (+13, fol. 13) 2–88 98+1 (+1, fol. 70) 10–148 156 [to fol. + 124, a production boundary) | 168 (+ 1, + fol. 125) 17–348 358+1 (+9, fol. 286). + Two later catchwords (fols. 37v, 133v), written vertically + along the gutter rule; no + signatures. + + + In long lines, 20 lines to the page. No prickings; + bounded and ruled in a rusty red ink. + + + + Written in gothic + textura quadrata. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus; in + some portions, by point and medial point. + + + Headings in red throughout. + In item 2, a 6-line initial capital, blue on violet + and gold leaf, with vine and flower design. + Individual prayers introduced by 2-line alternate + violet and blue champes with vine and flower infills and floral sprays in + the margins. + In item 4 and the remainder, an 8-line introductory + capital like that for item 2. + The same 2-line champes with floral sprays at major + divisions. + One-line lombards, alternate blue on red flourishing + and gold on black to introduce individual prayers; red-slashed capitals + within some texts, blue and gold leaf line-fillers. + graded programme of illustration. + At the top of the hierarchy are unified full openings, + with borders on both pages and full-page illuminations on the versos, often + single leaves blank on their rectos and inserted into the quires. + The borders include leaves, flowers, and fruit, as well + as birds and drolleries. + These illustrations include: Christ as alpha and + omega, in a deer-park standing on the orb of the earth (fol. 13v, + introducing ‘the fifteen ooes’; for iconographic parallels, see Scott, + 2:301); the Annunciation (fol. 29v, introducing the Hours proper and + Matins); Christ in majesty and the damned being drawn to hell below the + clouds of heaven (fol. 70v, the Psalms and litany); the raising of Lazarus, + with black-hooded monks in the border (fol. 85v, the Office of the Dead); an + aristocratic David with a harp kneeling outside a city while looking up to + an angel holding three arrows, musicians in the border (fol. 125v, the + Psalter). + Important subsidiary divisions are marked by single + pages with borders and either full- or half-page (with some text material) + illuminations. + These include: a wayfaring Christian with bag + (the incipit verse on a scroll by his head), above him angels raising souls + in a bag to a judging God (fol. 105v, the Psalm of commendation); and Christ + posed as if in Gethsemane (although depicted in a deer-park outside a + beautiful city, the incipit verse in a scroll by his head, fol. 116v, the + Psalms of the Passion). + Similar illustrations mark the nocturns of the + Psalter; these depict actions relevant to the Christian’s imitation of the + Passion, as indicated by the relevant Psalm and the action of David in the + illustration. + The Passion subjects correspond to the historiated + initials which introduce the Hours of the Virgin, with one minor + transposition: David in the foreground pointing at his eye (‘Dominus + illuminatio mea’) and looking to God in heaven while Jesus is betrayed in + the background (fol. 148); David resisting demonic temptation and the + buffeting (fol. 162v); David lecturing a fool and Jesus before Pilate (fol. + 176); David praying naked in the waters and the way to Calvary (fol. 189v); + David playing a range of bells with mallets and the crucifixion with Mary + and John (fol. 206v); clergy with a choir-book and the deposition (fol. + 222); Christ and the Father, holding an open book, between two trumpeting + angels, with a dove, and the entombment (fol. 238v). + Finally, there are twenty-three historiated initials, + all of six or seven lines, within blue or violet champes on gold leaf. + Fifteen of these introduce the suffrages (text 3) with an image of saint and + his or her emblem: the trinity, father holding son as + pietà with hovering dove; Michael triumphant over the + devil in a garden; John the Baptist with a book and nimbed lamb; John the + evangelist, with his sign, an eagle, writing; the assassination of Becket; + George slaying the dragon, with a praying woman in the background; + Christopher carrying the baby Jesus across a river; Antony before a hermit’s + hut, with a bell and a boar; Roche with pilgrim staff and bag meeting an + angel; Sebastian’s martyrdom; Anne holding on her lap the Virgin, who is + holding baby Jesus on hers; Mary Magdalen outside an orchard holding a blue + pot and receiving stigmata; Katherine holding an open book with wheel and + sword; Margaret praying in the prison with a cat-like devil; Barbara by her + tower. + Seven historiated initials occur at the head of the + individual Offices of the Virgin; each depicts an event of the Passion, + paralleling the nocturns of the Psalter, but here Jesus before Pilate + precedes the buffeting (fols. 47, 50, preceding Prime and Tierce + respectively). The Virgin holding her child, imposed on sun and moon, + precedes the devotion to the joys of the Virgin (fol. 64). + See AT, no. 814 (81) and plate liv (fols. 13v, + 29v). + + + +

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper + leaf one modern paper flyleaf, and two medieval vellum flyleaves (a + bifolium); at the rear, another marbled leaf (v).

+ + + + + + s. xv2 + + Flanders + for English use + + + Additions to the Calendar: ‘Obitus Elizabeth Regine anno 1502’ (11 + February); ‘Obitus princeps Arthur Anno 1502’ (3 April); ‘Bellum Blakheth in + Kent anno 1494’ (16 June); ‘anno domini M1vcxxij. Ista die natus fuit Elizabeth Heton’ (3 October). + Agricultural + accounts (fol. iii, s. xvi in.). + ‘ + Regina Elizabetha’ (fol. iiiv, upside down on the lower edge, s. xvi + ex.). + An old shelfmark ‘B.44.’. (fol. iv, upside down). + Sum liber ?Collegii Sancti + Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Thomae Knyvett + militis Baronis de Escricke 1607 ex rogatu Guillielmi Paddei Equitis’ (fol. 1, upper margin). + + + + + + + Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval + manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford + University Press, 2002) + + + +

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+ + + + Horae Eboracenses, Surtees Society 132 (1920). + Alexander, J. J. G. and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts in + Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor + Institution (Oxford, 1985). + + + + + + + First online publication + + + + +

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