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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 24)

(a) Unidentified Geometry; (c) Theology; (d) An unidentified commentary on ARISTOTLE, Metaphysica (binding fragments)

Physical Description

Form: codex

History

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 24 only.

Fragment (a)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1.
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 92 mm.
Dimensions (written): 108 × 80 mm.
(but cut into the width of the text).

Layout

In long lines, 21–4 lines to the page. Bounded and ruled in brown ink.

Hand(s)

Written in England in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii2.

History

Origin: s. xiii2 ; England

Provenance

At the top, a boxed ‘13’; at the foot, upside down ‘Henricus Widerwode’ (s. xvii in.).

Fragment (b)

Contents

2.

See fragment 4.

Fragment (c)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: Vellum.
Extent: Two fragments.
Dimensions (leaf): 73 × 70 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 76 × 55 mm.
scraps from a double column MS.

Layout

At most 13 surviving lines, in each case only a piece of the column.

Fragment (d)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

4.
An unidentified commentary on ARISTOTLE, Metaphysica,

the opening of 1.3 on one of the fragments.

Physical Description

Support: Vellum.
Extent: Two fragments, in both cases the upper portions of leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 113 × 167 mm.

Layout

In long lines, the column 75 mm wide, with an extensive leading edge for glosses (of which many are provided in various hands of s. xiii ex. and xiv in.), 20 surviving lines.

Hand(s)

Written in England in gothic textura quadrata, s. xiii2.

Decoration

Occasional 1-line blue lombards.

The text divided by red and blue paraphs.

History

Origin: s. xiii2 (text) s. xiii ex. and xiv in. (gloss) ; England

Provenance

Vertically in the margin a quotation/translation from Sap. 5 (s. xvi ex.).

Additional Information

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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-06: First online publication

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