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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 114)

Gratian, Decretum (binding fragment)

Language(s): Latin

Apparently from Gratian’s Decretum (D.3 d.p.c.44 §2).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Extent: Fols. 1, fragmentary.

Dimensions (leaf): approx. 65 × 300 mm.

Layout

In four columns.

Hand(s)

Written in Gothic textura rotunda(?)

Decoration

Red and blue paraphs.

History

Origin: 13th or 14th century(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly used as binding waste in Oxford, St John’s College, D.1.7, which comprises books 6, 7, and 8 of Opera Bedae Venerabilis presbyteri, Anglosaxonis […] (Basileae: Per Ioannem Heruagium, 1563).

This binding fragment was apparently discovered when the book was rebacked in 1986. It is now the 114th item in MS 235, a collection of binding fragments removed from College books.

Record Sources

This record was created in 2023 as part of the St John’s College Digitization project. MS 235 fragment 114 was not included in 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)

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

2023-10: First online publication

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