St John's College MS 192

Juvenal; Horace, Ars poetica

Language(s): Latin

Fols. 1–81^v:

Rubric: [the rubric later in the upper margin] LUCIJ IUUENALIS satyrarum liber primus incipit feliciter Materiam et causas satyrarum harum inspice⟨..⟩ prima

Incipit: Semper ego avditor tantvm nvnquamne reponam | Vexatus totiens

Explicit: sit et foelicissimus idem | Vt lęti faleris omnes et torquibus omnes

Final rubric: IUUENALIS Satyrici Liber explicit

Juvenal, Satirae,

ed. John Ferguson (New York, 1979), 9–107. A few glosses in a medieval hand on the first page, and occasional omitted lines or variants supplied marginally.

Fols. 81^v–90^v:

Rubric: HORATIJ FLACCI uenusini poetae de arte poetica liber incipit

Incipit: Humano capiti ceruicem pictor equinam | lungere si uelit

Explicit: tenet occiditque legendo | Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris irudo [sic for irundo]

Horace, Ars poetica

Opera, ed. D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Stuttgart, 1985), 310–29.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Accipiat

Form: codex

Support: Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Extent: Fols. i + 90 + i (numbered fol. ii).

Dimensions (leaf): 167 × 117 mm.

Dimensions (written): 98 × 68 mm.

Collation

1–9¹⁰. Catchwords in the gutter; no signatures.

Condition

The full book water-stained on top and leading edges but without damage to the text.

Layout

In long lines, 24 lines to the page. No prickings; bounded and ruled in pencil.

Hand(s)

Written in Italian humanistic bookhand (probably a single hand becoming more cursive as the book progresses). Punctuation by point at line ends and the caesura; occasional double point, virgula, and punctus elevatus at the cesura.

Decoration

Rather crude painted initials at divisions: a 7-line gold one on blue, red, and green ground at the head of item 1.

Individual satires introduced by 2-line gold capitals on similar grounds, the overwhelming number unfilled blanks.

Lines in decorative capitals to introduce texts.

Headings in red between the two texts, and frequently (with fading) between Juvenal’s individual satires, the last example on fol. 48.

See AT, no. 974 (101).

Binding

Dark brown leather, with a plain fillet, s. xvi/xvii, remounted over millboards. Sewn on three thongs. Holes in both boards from two pairs of ties to close the book. At the head of the spine gold ‘192’, in black ink along the leading edges. Pastedowns marbled paper, a College bookplate on the front pastedown.

At both front and rear, a single modern paper flyleaf (the rear fol. ii).

History

Origin: s. xv med. ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

An erased mark of ownership ‘Ivvenalis ipse ⟨ ⟩ Io ⟨ ⟩’ (fol. 90^v at mid page, s. xv ex.).

‘Sum Ben Jonsonij ex dono D Jo Radcliffe equ Aurati’ (fol. 1, upper margin). Listed among Jonson’s five MSS by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, Ben Jonson I (Oxford, 1925), 262–3, along with our MS 87.

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).

John Ferguson (ed.), The Satires (New York, 1979)

C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, Ben Jonson I (Oxford, 1925)

D. R. Shackleton Bailey (ed.), Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera (Stuttgart, 1985).

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