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St John's College MS 235 (fragments 2, 5, and 17)

Breviary (binding fragments)

Language(s): Latin

on no. 2, the sanctorale, part of Matins for the feast of St Andrew, ed. BrevSar 3:11–15; elsewhere gospel readings, those on no. 5 mainly from services for the Commons of saints (Matt. 13, Luke 6, Matt. 5, etc.); on no. 17 from services for St John Baptist (Luke 1) and the Invention of the Cross (John 3).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 2, the lower (no. 5) and upper (no. 17) portions of leaves, and a strip from a bifolium (no. 2).

Dimensions (leaf): 75 × 115 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column the length of the fragments x 25–8 mm wide, with 7–10 mm between columns, in 17, 12, and 18 surviving lines respectively. No prickings; rules appear in stylus.

Hand(s)

Written in England in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xv in.

Decoration

Alternate red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.

Headings in red; texts broken by red-slashed capitals.

History

Origin: s. xv in. ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from college books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 2, 5, and 17 only.

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.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Francis Proctor and Christopher Wordsworth (eds.), Breviarum ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1882–6).

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

2021-09: First online publication

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