St John's College MS 157

(pastedowns only) Job glossed

Language(s): Latin

This modern MS, which begins with an Oxford disputation and sermon, both dated 1540, contains medieval binding materials:

Job,

5:16–18 (the rear pastedown) and 6:11–22 (fols. i–ii^v; the leaf has been bound backwards), with the ordinary gloss (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11800 [9:485–6]). There are a few early marginal notes on fol. ii, and a good many pen-trials, s. xv/xvi, on fol. ii^v and the rear pastedown (upside down).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 2 (numbered fols. i–ii, the raised front pastedown; and the unnumbered rear pastedown).

Dimensions (leaf): 200 surviving mm × 176 surviving mm.

(the larger leaf at the front).

Layout

The writing covers most of the leaves (an intact leading edge on the front, the large lower margin on the rear leaf): a text column 30–45 mm wide, set into a gloss column 70–85 mm wide. At the fullest, 22+ surviving lines of text, 45 lines of gloss. Prickings on the front leaf; some bounds in brown ink, the rules apparently in lead.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii med. (both text and gloss are above top line on fol. i–ii recto, but only the text so on the verso).

History

Origin: s. xiii med. ; England

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

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

2021-10: First online publication

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