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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 95)

The Sarum temporale and THOMAS AQUINAS, Scriptum super Libros Sententiarum (binding fragments)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Previously numbered fragments 5 and 6 respectively; Ker PD nos. 445–6 (42).
Form: codex

History

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 95 only.

Fragment 95(a)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1.
The Sarum temporale,

services for the second Saturday and the third Sunday in Lent, ed. Sarum Missal, cols. 188–91.

Physical Description

Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1.
Dimensions (leaf): 307 × 210 mm.

Collation

Layout

In double columns, each column 245 × 70 mm. , with 13 mm between columns, in 39–40 lines to the column. No prickings; bounds and rules faded.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiv ex.

Decoration

Headings in red.

At divisions, 2-line blue lombards on red flourishing.

A 4-line unfinished champe (only the gold leaf laid).

History

Origin: s. xiv ex ;

Provenance

A few theological notes, in the main illegible, in secretary at the foot.

Fragment 95(b)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2.
THOMAS AQUINAS, Scriptum super Libros Sententiarum,

bk. 2, dists. 38–39, ed. R. P. Mandonnet and Maria F. Moos, 4 vols. (Paris, 1929–47), 2:979–81, 983–90.

Physical Description

Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1.
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 200 mm.

Collation

Condition

The verso is very nearly illegible.

Layout

In double columns, each column 237 × 70 mm. , with 12 mm between columns, in 54 lines to the column. No prickings; bounded and ruled in black ink.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiv med.

Decoration

Three-line alternate red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.

Blanks for headings unfilled.

The text divided by occasional red paraphs.

History

Origin: s. xiv med

Provenance

The shelfmark of the book from which they were removed, ‘X.3.14’ upside down at the foot of the first leaf.

Additional Information

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

    Neil R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications NS 5 (1954).
    R. P. Mandonnet and Maria F. Moos (eds.) S. Thomae Aquinatis Scriptum super libros Sententiarum magistri petri Lombardi, episcopi Parisiensis, 4 vols. (Paris, 1929–47).
    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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-06: First online publication

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