St John's College MS 235 (fragments 4 and 24[b])

Psalter (binding fragments)

Language(s): Latin

Ps. 137:4–139:10 (the single leaf of no. 24[b]), 145:2–end and the three canticles ‘Te deum’, ‘Benedicite’, and ‘Nunc dimittis’ (the bifolium), most of the Athanasian Creed and the opening of the Litany (no. 4).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 4 (an originally central bifolium and a loose leaf comprise no. 24[b]).

Dimensions (leaf): 132 × 94 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column 103 × 30–3 mm. , with 5–8 mm between columns, in 34 lines to the column. No prickings; bounds and rules faded.

Hand(s)

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

Decoration

Nine 1-line lombards to introduce sections, usually purple on red flourishing, in a few cases the colours reversed; a 6-line space at the head of the Litany filled with a violet lombard.

Headings in red.

One-line red lombards at versals.

History

Origin: s. xv ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 4 and 24[b] 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.

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

2021-10: First online publication

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