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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 61)

An index to GREGORY THE GREAT, Moralia in Iob, books 19–33 (binding fragment)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

An index to GREGORY THE GREAT, Moralia in Iob,

books 19–33, a sequential list of topics treated by chapters, e.g. ‘Incipit pars Quinta et Capitula libri xxiij. De quadripartita locutione De amatoribus uane glorie De spe.. predicatore De speciebus amatorum uane glorie […] ’. (For this division of the work into ‘parts’, cf. PL 76:249).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1.
Dimensions (leaf): 308 × 200 mm.

Layout

In three columns, each the full length of the sheet and up to 50–60 mm wide , generally about 20 mm between columns, in 84 surviving lines. No prickings, bounds, or rules.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii in.

History

Origin: s. xiii in.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 61 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.

Bibliography

    Jacques-Paul Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina 76 (Paris, 1849).

Funding of Cataloguing

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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04: First online publication

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