Exeter College MS. 3
Jacobus de Voragine, Super historiam Bibliae; s. xv1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Unprinted. Stegmüller, Bibl., 3998,1; Bloomfield, no. 0122.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Two columns, 40–45 lines. Ruled in crayon.
Hand(s)
Fols. 1–16 in anglicana with secretary a; fols 17 to end mixed anglicana and secretary, with secretary a but d, g, r, and s of both kinds. The scribe of the first part punctuates by low and medial points, the scribe of the second part by low point only. Scribe 1 writes ink capitula in quadrata/semiquadrata, scribe 2 uses occasional cadells.
Decoration
Spaces were left for two- and three-line initials, a few with guide letters. There are rubrics, red paraphs, stroking, underlining of lemmata, and marginal auctoritates.
Binding
Sewn on five bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fol. iv: ‘Jacobi Januensis super Hystorias Biblie Est Ex Dono Magistri Thome Baroun olim capellani Istius Collegij’. Baroun died c. 1463: see BRUO, ‘Baron’.
There are crayon and ink marginalia of s. xviin in a number of hands. How the book reached Exeter is unknown: it is not recorded in Ecloga but may nevertheless have been at the College in the medieval period: see Introduction, pp. xxii–xxiii. No. 23 in CMA.
Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, ‘174–K–3’ altered to ‘170–I–3’, ‘Q.6.3 Gall.’ (pencil, deleted), and ‘Coxe III’ (pencil).
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Exeter College Library.
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College.
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-29: First online publication