St John's College MS 235 (fragments 62 and 68)
John of Garland, 'Dictionarius’ (binding fragments)
Contents
Language(s): Latin with some glosses in Anglo-Norman
with its standard accessus and gloss (including some glosses in Anglo-Norman), ed. Thomas Wright, A Volume of Vocabularies ([Liverpool], 1857), pp. 120–38. See the more recent discussion and edition, Tony Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1991), 1:191–203 (the accessus at 193; the contents of our fragment, sections 1–4, 6, 43–50 at 196, 199); and for glosses 3:125–56 passim .
Physical Description
Layout
In double columns, each column 138 × 50 mm. , with 10 mm between columns, in 37 lines to the column (the text written on alternate lines to allow an interlinear gloss, broken by further paragraphs of gloss written on single lines). Prickings on no. 68; bounds and rules faded away.
Hand(s)
The text written in gothic textura semiquadrata, the gloss in anglicana, s. xiv in.
Decoration
Spaces for 3- and 4-line capitals, some filled with unflourished red lombards.
Some red-slashed capitals near the start and extended decorative paraphs in text ink at the head of gloss sections.
The gloss broken by small red paraphs.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 62 and 68 only.
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2022-04: First online publication