St John's College MS 235 (fragment 20)

A sermon or tract on spiritual warfare (binding fragment)

Language(s): Latin

A sermon or tract on spiritual warfare, Jesus pierced by the spear on the cross as an example, ‘ […] militum lancea latus eius aperuit ⟨ ⟩ ab infeccione sanguinis peccati mortalis vt ⟨ ⟩ infectiuus […] ’; includes a reference to HRABANUS, De universo 19.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: A strip from a conjoint bifolium

Dimensions (leaf): 60 × 86 mm.

of the fuller leaf, from the head of the leaves.

Layout

In long lines, at the fullest 16 of them surviving.

Hand(s)

Written in anglicana, s. xiv¹ (some hooked ascenders, r not fully below the line).

Decoration

Unfinished; a space for a heading unfilled

History

Origin: s. xiv¹

Provenance and Acquisition

The signature ‘W Thomas’ in the gutter and a further illegible entry ending with the name ‘James’.

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 20 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

2021-12: First online publication

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