St John's College MS 235 (fragment 105)

JUSTINIAN, Codex 4.45.1–46.6 (binding fragment)

Language(s): Latin

JUSTINIAN, Codex,

4.45.1–46.6, ed. CJCiv 2:180–1.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fol. 1.

Dimensions (leaf): 365 × 225 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column 243 × 53 mm. , with 9 mm between columns, in 46 lines to the column. Very large margins left for glosses, added, in the main informally, in a variety of later hands. No prickings; bounded and ruled in stylus.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, certainly continental (Italy?), s. xiii. Some of the glossing appears English, a formal anglicana/secretary mixture, s. xv, but most of it again is continental.

Decoration

Headings in red, although many not provided, often because there is no space left.

At the heads of sections, 3-line alternate red and blue lombards, unflourished, with the actual text beginning with an unflourished 1-line example in the contrasting colour.

History

Origin: s. xiii (text) s. xv (gloss) ; Italy(?) (text) ; Some of the glossing appears English, but most of it again is continental.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 105 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

Paul Kruger et al., Corpus Juris Civilis, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1905).

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

2022-06: First online publication

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