St John's College MS 235 (fragments 57 and 59)

Language(s): Latin

from the sanctorale, services for the Nativity of John the Baptist and John and Paul martyrs, ed. BrevSar 2:344–6, 355.

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 2.

Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 195 mm.

In double columns, each column 215 × 65 mm. , with 18 mm between columns, in 24 lines to the column. No prickings; bounded and ruled in lead.

Written in gothic textura quadrata, s. xiv.

Alternate 2-line red and blue lombards; headings and liturgical directions in red.

Origin: s. xiv

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 57 and 59 only.

Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

Francis Proctor and Christopher Wordsworth (eds.), Breviarum ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1882–6).

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

2022-04: First online publication