St John's College MS. 21

Joshua and Judges glossed

Language(s): Latin

1. Fols. 1^rb–44^vc

Incipit: Et factvm est post mortem moysi serui dei […] [fol. 1^rc, the gloss] Adamantius Moyses famulus meus defunctus est etc. aduerte quomodo regnat ihesus

Explicit: [fol. 44^vb the text ends] in gaab finees filij eius que data est ei in monte effraim […] [the gloss ends] que arbor a lxx. hic posita est Alij non quercum posuerunt

Joshua, with the ordinary gloss (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11786 [9:474–5]).

2. Fols. 44^va–84^v

Incipit: Adamantius In fine libri ihesu naue breuiter narrator porrexit historiam. […] [fol. 44^vb, the text] Post mortem iosue consuluerunt filij israel dominum […] [fol. 44^vc, the gloss] Isidorus Historia libri iudicum non parua misteriorum indicat sacramenta

Explicit: [fol. 83^ra, the final gloss] sit humilis sed contra se rigida bonis omnibus non sit submissa […] [the text ends] quod sibi rectum uidebatur hoc faciebat

Final rubric: Explicit liber iudicum

Judges, with the ordinary gloss (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11787 [9:475]).

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Rubentis

Form: codex

Support: Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Extent: Fols. iv + 84 + iii (numbered fols. v–vii).

Dimensions (leaf): 365 × 250 mm.

Collation

1–10⁸ 11⁴. No catchwords; signatures in roman numerals on the final versos of each quire (quires 2–11 = ii^us–xi^us).

Layout

In varying formats dependant on the shape of the gloss, the basic writing area 218–20 × 140 mm. , in 50 lines for the gloss and 25 lines for the text. Prickings for columns (those for lines frequently visible in the gutters); bounded and ruled in black ink.

Hand(s)

Written in two sizes of a hand transitional between protogothic bookhand and gothic textura, the gloss above the top line, the text below it. Punctuation by point only.

Decoration

Neither rubrics nor chapter divisions (in Judges, chapter numbers added in black ink later).

At the heads of the texts, 6- or 7-line initials: lions and other animal shapes in the vine-work of a violet and blue champe on a midnight blue and gold ground.

Alternate red and blue 1- line lombards for versals.

The glosses, in the main marginal, introduced by paraphs in text ink.

Running titles in alternate red and blue lombards with the name of the biblical book.

See AT no. 147 (17) and plate viii (fol. 1^rb).

Binding

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

History

Origin: s. xiii in. ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading’ Quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit’, ‘Quem qui celauerit uel’ above in a later hand (fol. iv) (Ker, MLGB 158).

A few pen-trials (fol. iv).

‘Liber Collegij Divi loannis Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono Magistri Ioannis Stonor Generosi de Northstoke in Comitatu Oxon 1609’ (fol. 1).

Record Sources

Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Availability

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

Bibliography

J. J. G. Alexander and Elźbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985).

N. R. Ker, 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).

Friederich Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 11 vols. (Madrid, 1950–80).

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2021-08: First online publication

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges