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St John's College MS 144

William Woodford, De sacramento altaris

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Fols. 1–148v:
Incipit: Racione solempnitatis iam instantis de corpore cristi […] [fol. 3, the text] Primum dubium fuit quid est eukaristie quibus nominibus appellatum et an sit dignissimum
Explicit: vt me filium suum ad visionem veritatis increate suis oracionibus deducere dignetur veritati autem increate sit honor [form ending] Amen
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus notabilis de sacramento altaris editus a magistro WODEFORD doctore in Theologia et fratre minore
William Woodford, De sacramento altaris

Sharpe, no. 2219 (819–22, at 821–2), unpublished; the incipit corresponds with those in the copy in BodL, MS Bodley 703, fols. 102ra, 103ra (this copy breaks off early in question 72). Fols. 1–2v have a table of the seventy-two questions, and fols. ii and iii are both bounded but blank.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: istorum (fol.2)
Secundo Folio: doctores (fol.4)
Form: codex
Support: Vellum (FSOS/FHHF)
Extent: i + 150 (numbered 1–148, ii-iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 143–150 × 90 mm.

Collation

1–1212 138 (–7, –8, both blank). All leaves in the first half of each quire signed with a letter and a roman numeral, although most are cut away; quires 4–11 = d–l. Catchwords towards the gutter, a few in elaborate scrolls.

Layout

In long lines, 33 lines to the page. No prickings; bounded in brown and reddish-brown ink and crayon, no rules.

Hand(s)

Written in secretary. Punctuation by light use of point, punctus elevatus, and virgula.

Decoration

No headings.

At the heads of the questions, 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing, with extended sprays.

The text broken by alternate red and blue paraphs.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on four thongs. Pastedowns old vellum, a College bookplate on the front pastedown. At the head, one medieval vellum flyleaf, followed by a stub, probably from its conjugate.

History

Origin: s. xv med. ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Odd pen-trials (fol. iv).

‘Liber Collegii Divi Joannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Domini Guilielmi Paddei Militis et olim ejusdem Collegii Convictoris 1634’ (fol. 2, upper margin).

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.

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

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