St John's College MS 19
Augustine, Sermons on Psalms
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In double columns, each column 255 × 70–75 mm. , with 15 mm. between columns, in 40 lines to the column. Occasional prickings, especially in the gutters; bounded and ruled in pencil.
Hand(s)
Written ingothic textura semiquadrata or rotunda. Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus. Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Decoration
Headings in red at the head of each psalm, with 2- to 4-line red and navy-blue lombards (unflourished).
Smaller lombards for some inner divisions.
At the head, a 7-line red initial with navy vine and leaf infill.
Many instructions for rubrics at the page foot in a small informal hand, perhaps s. xiii ex.
Binding
Brown reversed calf over millboards, s. xviii. Sewn on five thongs. ‘19’ in gold at the head of the spine. Two pairs of string ties front and rear; a chain staple mark with two intact nails in Watson’s position 6, the staple intact inside the front cover. A College bookplate on the front pastedown. One blank modern paper flyleaf at the rear (i).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Hic est liber ecclesie beati Thome martiris de lesnes de dono fratris thome de sanduyco quem qui abstulerit aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit nisi eidem ecclesie plenare satisfeceret anathema sit maranatha’ (fol. 1), in anglicana, s. xiii/xiv. Ker, MLGB 114, 274 (where Thomas of Sandwich is noted as having given two other books, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 135; and BodL, MS Bodley 656). This is the third volume of a four-volume copy; no surviving Lessness book can be one of the companion volumes.
'Tercia pars Augustini super Psalterium' (fol. 1 foot, s. xv, bastard secretary), with an addition ‘A Psalmo 80 ad finem Psalmi 118’ (s. xvii).
'?Ex dono Ricardi Tilesley 1619' (the front pastedown, s. xx, in pencil). Tilesley’s bequest, including this MS, appears in col. lxxxix of the Benefactors’ Book and is discussed at Hunt, 65; he was an archdeacon of Rochester.
St John's College MS 19 - pastedown
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Entries for ‘M’ corresponding to the text of BodL, MS Laud misc. 626, fols. 104vb/19–105rb/3, 110ra/36–110va/23.
At the foot of the lower board fragment, in contemporary anglicana: ‘Dicas Magdalene velud hec helene tamen vsus | Abdicat hoc stabilis cum magdalena legatur | Sicut terrena quia deriuata trahuntur’; not in Walther.
Physical Description
Layout
In double columns, each column 255 × 80 mm. , with 15 mm. between columns, in 50 lines to the column.
Hand(s)
Written in textura semiquadrata.
Decoration
Two-line blue lombards on red flourishing at the heads of entries, with some marginal headings (several later).
Alternate red and blue paraphs to break up entries.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust.
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-11: First online publication