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Library:
Shelfmark:
C.29(3)
Former shelfmark:
Content
195
St. John's College
Oxford
Travelling companions:
United Kingdom
Location:
Language:
1r-4v
DSB Title:
NE: MS was originally five separate MSS: ff. 1-4 (s. XIV med. or ex.); ff. 5-123 (s. XV med); ff. 124-173 (s. XV med.); ff. 174-233 (s. XV med.); ff. 234-249, ii-iv (s. XV med.) (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
MS Title:
CAT Title:
DSB Author:
Distichs of Cato
MS Author:
Latin (DC)
CAT Author:
Incipit:
The Disticha Catonis, books 1-4 complete but without the 'breves sententiae' at the head (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
Explicit:
Si deus est animus nobis vt carmina cicunt / Hic tibi precipue sit pura mente colendus (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
History
Miraris verbis nudus me scribere versus / Hec breuitas sensus facit coninugere binos (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
CAT Date:
XIVmed or ex
DSB Date:
MS Date:
Origin:
Scribe:
1331-1400
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Additional Information
Digital reproductions:
"'I Emgere Wystemntame' (fol. 249, upper margin, s. xv ex. [...]) [...] 'Iames suthampton' (fol. 79, upper margin, rubbed, s. xvi med.) [...] '[...] per me thomas iones' (fol. 173v, apparently in the same hand as the preceding); Thomas Jones also signs upside down on fol. iv v[erso], and below that 'Thomas wyhene in lumbert stryt' in Jones's hand. 'harry lythting is put' [...] (fol. ii, in script similar to the two preceding ones, again defaced). 'Liber Collegij Sanctj Johannis Baptistae Oxon' ex dono Christophorj Coles Artis Bacchalaurej ejusdem Collegii conuictoris' (fol. 2, vertically in the margin)." (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
Physical reproductions:
Transcription:
Bibliography:
Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford, pp. 281-84, no. 195
Notes:
N/A
NE: MS was originally five separate MSS: ff. 1-4 (s. XIV med. or ex.); ff. 5-123 (s. XV med); ff. 124-173 (s. XV med.); ff. 174-233 (s. XV med.); ff. 234-249, ii-iv (s. XV med.) (per Hanna Descriptive Catalogue St. John's Oxford)
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