St John's College MS 121
Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospels
Contents
Language(s): Latin
CPL 1711, ed. PL 76:1075–1312. A table for the homilies in double columns, fol. 1rv. Fol. 111v is blank but ruled, as is the rear pastedown.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In long lines, 30–36 to the page. Prickings; bounded and ruled in black ink.
Hand(s)
Written in anglicana formata, by at least three scribes: the stints run fols. 1–8v, fols. 9–58v, fols. 59–111. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus (scribe i); to these, scribe 2 adds the punctus interrogativus; by point and occasional punctus elevatus and virgula (scribe 3).
Decoration
Headings in red.
Two-line blue lombards on red flourishing at the beginning of each sermon.
Within sermons, red-slashed capitals to divide the text.
To fol. 30, the homily number is provided in the upper corner of rectos.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. Pastedowns are medieval vellum, a College bookplate on the front pastedown, the rear one a ruled waste sheet from the MS, its original final leaf. The front pastedown has holes and verdigris stains, probably from a chain-staple in Watson’s position 6. At the front, two medieval vellum flyleaves; no extra leaves at the rear.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A table of the forty homilies (fol. ii, secretary, s. xv med.).
‘Precium libri xiij. s iiij. d’ (fol. 111v, s. xv); another contemporary pen-trial on the rear pastedown.
Given by John White, listed in the Benefactors’ Book (col. ii) as ‘Gregorij homiliae in Euangeliae MS’.
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.
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