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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 45)

A text on the elements (binding fragment)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

A text on the elements,

one break, ‘Elementum dicitur ex quo componitur primo in existente indiuisibili ipse in aliam speciem vt uocis […] ’, resembles the opening of the contemporary THEODORIC OF FREIBURG OP, ‘De elementis corporum naturalium’ (Kaeppeli no. 3710 [4:314–15]).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1.
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 195 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column 220 × 70 mm. , with 13 mm between columns, in 39 lines to the column. No prickings; bounds and rules faded.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii ex.

Decoration

At openings, 2-line alternate red and blue lombards, on flourishing of the other colour.

The text divided by alternate red and blue paraphs.

History

Origin: s. xiii ex.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 45 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.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 4 vols. (Rome, 1970–93).

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust

Last Substantive Revision

2022-03: First online publication

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