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St John's College MS 235 (fragments 25 and 26)

Medicine, including materials on regimen for sea voyages, the use of baths, and recipes to restore flesh (binding fragments)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fols. 2.
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 147 and 155 mm.
the lower portion of the leaves.

Layout

In double columns, each column 60 mm wide, with 8–9 mm between columns, in 38 surviving lines to the column.

Hand(s)

Written in bastard secretary (letter forms in the main those of textura), s. xv3/4.

Decoration

Headings in red.

At divisions, 2-line alternate red and blue lombards, flourished in the other colour.

A few 1-line red lombards to divide the text.

History

Origin: s. xv3/4

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 25 and 26 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

2022-01: First online publication

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