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

St John's College MS 235 (fragments 46 and 56)

A scholastic legal text, probably a commentary on civil law (binding fragment)

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fols. 2 (no. 56 badly torn to remove an initial).
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 200 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column at the fullest 283 × 90 mm. with 17 mm between columns, in 57–67 surviving lines. No prickings; bounded and ruled in lead.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura rotunda, s. xiv.

Decoration

On no. 46, at headings, 2-line blue lombards on red flourishing, extended into a marginal bar (the cut-out initial on no. 56 had more elaborate red and blue flourishing).

The text divided by alternate red and blue paraphs.

History

Origin: s. xiv

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 46 and 56 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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-03: First online publication

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