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

Breviary (binding fragments)

Language(s): Latin

Breviary ,

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

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 2.

Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 195 mm.

Layout

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.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura quadrata, s. xiv.

Decoration

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

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 57 and 59 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

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

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

2022-04: First online publication

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