St John's College MS 235 (fragment 12)

Mark 4:24–8, 33–7, 5:33–7, 5:40–6:3, with the ordinary gloss (binding fragments)

Language(s): Latin

Mark 4:24–8, 33–7, 5:33–7, 5:40–6:3, with the ordinary gloss (Stegmüller, Bibl. 11828 [9:523–5]).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Two fragments, one from the foot of a page

Dimensions (fragment): 115–18 × 137 mm.

Layout

Two fragments, one from the foot of a page, from a central text column flanked with glosses. On the fuller leaf, 16 text lines, the gloss in half-sized script.

Hand(s)

Written in England in transitional protogothic bookhand/textura, s. xii ex. or xiii in.

Decoration

Paraphs in text ink, red-slashed; red-slashed capitals at the heads of versals alternating with 1-line red lombards.

History

Origin: s. xii ex. or xiii in. ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 12 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.

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