St John's College MS 71
Augustine of Ancona, Summa de ecclesiastica potestate
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The heading to the following table identifies the work as ‘summa de ecclesiastica potestate fratris AUGUSTINI DE ANCHONA ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini’. See Adolar Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens in mitteleuropäischen Bibliotheken (Würzburg, 1966), no. 141 (77–8); ed. Hain 960, BMC 2:329–30 (Augsburg, 1473). The text is followed by a table (fols. 427–36v) which concludes with another scribal couplet, ‘Explicit iste liber scriptus cum labore semper | Sit sanus dexter et finis ad celos Iter’.
Physical Description
A: Monts/Dreiberg: of the general type Piccard XVI 4, nos. 1151–1253, most commonly in use c.1430–50; the primary stock, its run only broken by the next two;
B: Unidentified: the sole stock visible in quires 4 and 5; perhaps as many as eight sheets total;
C: Monts/Dreiberg: the general type Piccard XVI 2, nos. 365–473, most commonly in use c.1420–early 1440s; at least the three central sheets of quire 25 and the sole stock of quires 26–8; as many as twenty-seven sheets total.
Collation
Layout
In long lines, 35 lines to the page (the format somewhat variable). No prickings; bounded in black ink, no rules.
Hand(s)
Written in continental cursiva formata. Punctuation by occasional point.
Decoration
Headings in red (although in the main unfilled).
At the head, a 15-line red lombard, with apparently an armorial (Greek cross with ermines).
At the heads of chapters 2- and 3-line lombards in text ink, many simply in outline (capitals are unfilled in quires 4–5, on a unique paper stock and with a shift in page format).
The text is broken with frequent red paraphs, text capitals at sentence heads frequently ochre-slashed (as are also some catchwords).
Binding
Brown reversed calf over millboards, s. xvi. Sewn on four thongs. Ties on both boards to hold the volume closed. Holes from a chain staple in Watson’s position 6. ‘71’ in black ink on a paper lozenge at the head of the spine, in black ink on the leading edges (which have been reddened) with an ink description ‘Augustinus de ancona de potestate ecclesiastica MS’. A tab on the lower board leading edge for a shelfmark, but it is blank. Pastedowns front and rear from MS, the same as that used in binding MS 69. At the front, two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, another (iii). The identical bindings and pastedowns, as well as the common donor, indicate that this MS and our MS 69 were bound together.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon ex dono Reuerendj in Cristo Patris Johannis Roffensis olim hujus Collegij socij et Praesidis’, i.e. John Buckridge (fol. 2, upper margin).
MS 71 - pastedowns
Pastedowns:
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
In double columns, each column the length of the fragment x 80 mm, with 12 mm between columns, in about 64 surviving lines to the column.
Hand(s)
Written in anglicana formata,. s. xiv med.
Decoration
The text is broken with alternate red and blue paraphs.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.
Bibliography
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
2022-01: First online publication