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</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
<msItem n="1" xml:id="MS_Bodl_208-item1">
<locus>(fols. 1r-156v)</locus>
<author key="person_40175167">Peter Comestor</author>
<title key="work_3495">Historia scolastica</title>
<rubric>Hystoria scolastica de Veteri &amp; Nouo Testamento</rubric>
<rubric>Hystoria scolastica de Veteri &#x0026; Nouo Testamento</rubric>
<incipit>Imperatorie maiestatis est</incipit>
<explicit>scilicet in chathacumbis</explicit>
<finalRubric>Liber historiarum magistri Petri Commestori</finalRubric>
<note type="annotation">With marginal notes.</note>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msItem>
<msItem class="#theologica" xml:id="MS_Bodl_208-item2">
<note>On fols. ii-vi, 157 are Latin theological notes written with a metal stilus, and partly illegible. </note>
<note>On fols. ii-vi, 157 are theological notes written with a metal stylus, and partly illegible.</note>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<p>
<secFol>
pro quantitate luminis
</secFol>
</p>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<supportDesc material="perg">
<support>parchment</support>
<extent>vi + 159 leaves <dimensions type="binding" unit="in">
<height>13.5</height>
<width>9.75</width>
</dimensions></extent>
<extent>pastedown + v + 156 + iii + pastedown
<dimensions type="leaf" unit="mm">
<height>335</height>
<width>240</width>
</dimensions>
</extent>
<foliation><p>Front endleaves: non-medieval pencil Roman numerals ii-vi in top RH corner.</p>
<p> Main text: seventeenth-century ink Arabic numerals 1-156 in top RH corner.</p>
<p> Back endleaves: non-medieval pencil Arabic numeral 157-159 in top RH corner.</p>
</foliation>
<collation>
Medieval pastedown,
4 bifolia bound as a quire of 8 where leaves 4, 5, and 8 are stubs,
1<hi rend="superscript">8</hi>,
2<hi rend="superscript">6</hi>,
3<hi rend="superscript">8</hi>,
4<hi rend="superscript">10</hi>,
5-6 <hi rend="superscript">8</hi>,
7<hi rend="superscript">10</hi>,
8-18<hi rend="superscript">8</hi>,
19<hi rend="superscript">12</hi> [11 is a stub],
1 bifolium with wide stub pasted over pastedown,
pastedown.
<p><signatures type="quire">Quires 3-7 and 11 numbered with Roman numerals III-VII and XI in ink.</signatures></p>
<catchwords>All in black ink, in bottom RH corner, first words of next quire (unless otherwise stated), appear the end of quires 3, 7-13, 15-16, 18. Also at the beginning of quires 4-6 and 12 in bottom LH corner, beginning of quire 6 has the last word of the previous quire.</catchwords>
</collation>
</supportDesc>
<layoutDesc>
<layout columns="2">2 cols.</layout>
<layout columns="2" writtenLines="50">2 columns of <hi rend="italic">c</hi>. 50 lines, ink- and plummet-ruled. <seg type="pricking">Pricking in inner margin.</seg>
Ruled space: <dimensions type="ruled" unit="mm">
<height>230</height>
<width>135</width>
</dimensions>
Line height: <dimensions type="line-height" unit="mm"><height>5</height></dimensions>mm.</layout>
</layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc hands="2">
<handNote script="protogothic">Fols. 1r-146v written in a protogothic hand</handNote>
<handNote script="protogothic">Fols. 147r-156v written in a hand with more Gothic feature</handNote>
</handDesc>
<decoDesc>
<decoNote type="flourInit">Illuminated capitals.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="flourInit">??? in red and blue, <dimensions type="other" unit="line"><height>2-20</height></dimensions> lines high.
5 on each side of the folio on average.</decoNote>
</decoDesc>
<bindingDesc>
<binding notAfter="1500" notBefore="1400">
<p>White leather on boards, clasps lost, English 15th cent. work.</p>
<p>s. xv</p>
<p><dimensions type="binding" unit="mm">
<height>340</height>
<width>235</width>
<depth>60</depth>
</dimensions></p>
<p>Endleaves:
At the front, a fragment pastedown in situ, possibly at one time wrapped around the following endleaves, but now a little distorted; followed by 8 non-fragment leaves bound as a quire, where leaves 4, 5, and 8 are stubs, with some text in ?plummet.
At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by a non-fragment bifolium with a wide stub, and a non-fragment pastedown in situ, these have plummet some plummet and ink text and pen trials.</p>
<p>Sewing: Sewn at five sewing stations (measured in mm): 55, 110, 160, 215, 265 from the top of the spine.</p>
<p>Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards from the outside. Boards have some bevelling and do not project beyond the bookblock.</p>
<p>Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.</p>
<p>Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared at either board, with tongued mitres in the visible corners.</p>
<p>Fastenings and furniture: Two pairs of holes, and damage to cover at foredge of upper board, with corresponding pairs of three nails and verdigris at foredge of lower board are the remains of two clasps.</p>
<p>Chaining: Chain-staple holes from Bodleian (top RH corner of upper board) and <orgName key="org_2142145857037522921207" role="fmo">St George's Chapel, Windsor </orgName>(bottom centre of upper board).</p>
</binding>
</bindingDesc>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin>
<origDate calendar="Gregorian" notAfter="1300" notBefore="1290">13th century, late</origDate>
<origDate calendar="Gregorian" notAfter="1300" notBefore="1290">s.xiii<hi rend="superscript">ex</hi></origDate>
<origPlace>
<country key="place_7002445">English</country>
</origPlace>
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<msPart type="fragment" xml:id="MS_Bodl_208-endleaf">
<msIdentifier>
<altIdentifier type="partial">
<idno type="part">MS. Bodl. 208 - endleaf (fol. i)</idno>
<idno type="part">MS. Bodl. 208 - front pastedown</idno>
</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
<msItem xml:id="MS_Bodl_208-endleaf-item1">
<title key="work_16303" type="desc">Commentary on Acts</title>
<title key="work_3495">Historia Scholastica</title>
<author key="person_40175167">Peter Comestor</author>
<note>Reject leaf. Text begins in the same place as fol. 147r in main manuscript, with 'imperatorum et incommoda' and ends with 'Et considerans ubi esset uenit'</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<supportDesc material="perg">
<support>parchment</support>
<extent><dimensions type="leaf" unit="mm">
<height>330</height>
<width>230</width>
</dimensions></extent>
</supportDesc>
<layoutDesc>
<layout columns="2" writtenLines="49">Two columns of 49 lines.
Written space: <dimensions type="written" unit="mm">
<height>230</height>
<width>135</width>
</dimensions>
Line height: <dimensions type="line-height" unit="mm"><height>5</height></dimensions>mm.</layout>
</layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc>
<handNote>Same as fols. 1r-146v of main manuscript.</handNote>
</handDesc>
<decoDesc><decoNote type="flourInit">One red initial 4 lines high, with green pen-flourishes.</decoNote></decoDesc>
<additions><note>Contents for main manuscript added in an Anglicana hand</note>
<note>Text from Jerome's commentary on Matthew in a hand roughly contemporary to that of the contents, on the stuck down side of the pastedown.</note></additions>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin>
<origDate calendar="Gregorian" notAfter="1300" notBefore="1200">13th century</origDate>
<origDate calendar="Gregorian" notAfter="1300" notBefore="1200">s.xiii</origDate>
<origPlace> <country key="place_7002445">English</country></origPlace>
</origin>
</history>
</msPart>
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<bibl type="repertory">BHL 3192</bibl>
</msItem>
</msItem>

<msItem>
<locus>(fol. 54)</locus>
<author key="person_196789494">Ps.-Athanasius</author>
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</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<p><secFol>intera positos agentes</secFol></p>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<supportDesc material="perg">
<support>parchment</support>
<extent>i + 174 leaves <dimensions type="binding" unit="in">
<height>12.5</height>
<width>8.5</width>
<extent>i + 173 + i leaves <dimensions type="leaf" unit="mm">
<height>315</height>
<width>205</width>
</dimensions>
</extent>
<condition>Partly in poor condition.</condition>
<foliation><p>Non-medieval Arabic numerals in ink in top RH corner of recto of every folio</p>
<p>Roman numerals in ink in bottom LH corner of verso of fols. 1-78.</p>
<p>Roman numerals in bottom centre of verso of fols. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110.</p></foliation>
<collation> A single front endleaf as a former pastedown, 1-21<hi rend="superscript">8</hi>, a bifolium and three singletons? Back endleaf a single former pastedown.
<signatures type="quire">Roman numerals at the end of quires 8-11, 13, 15-21.</signatures>
</collation>
</supportDesc>
<layoutDesc>
<layout columns="2">Double columns</layout>
<layout columns="2" writtenLines="35" rulingMedium="hardpoint">Double columns, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi>35 lines per folio, dry-point ruling, lines height (mm)<dimensions type="line-height" unit="mm"><height>7-9</height></dimensions>
Written space: <dimensions type="written" unit="mm">
<height>235</height>
<width>145</width>
</dimensions>
</layout>
</layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc>
<handNote script="protogothic">Written in a protogothic script.</handNote>
</handDesc>
<decoDesc>
<decoNote type="colInit">Coloured capitals.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="colInit">Red and green initials 6-10 lines high on fols. 1r-2r and occasionally from fol. 58r to end of manuscript. Red and green initials 2-5 lines high on fols. 2r check this! -61v, often rubricated, sometimes pen-flourished.</decoNote>
</decoDesc>
<bindingDesc>
<binding notBefore="1400" notAfter="1500">
<p>White leather on boards, clasp lost, English 15th cent. work.</p>
<binding notBefore="1300" notAfter="1400">
<p><dimensions type="binding" unit="unit">
<height>315</height>
<width>210</width>
<depth>80</depth>
</dimensions></p>
<p>Endleaves: At the front, a fragment former pastedown, now raised. At the back...?</p>
<p>Sewing: Sewn at five sewing stations...</p>
<p>Boards: Wooden boards, around 9mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards from the outside. Boards have some bevelling and project?? Superfluous sewing support holes at the foredge of both boards indicates they were reversed and reused.</p>
<p>Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.</p>
<p>Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Some paring of turn ins, with lapped mitres on upper board and tongued mitres on lower board.</p>
<p>Fastenings and furniture:</p>
<p>Chaining: Chain-staple holes from Bodleian (top RH corner of upper board) and <orgName key="org_2142145857037522921207" role="fmo">St George's Chapel, Windsor </orgName>(bottom centre of upper board).</p>
</binding>
</bindingDesc>
</physDesc>
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offertory of Palm Sunday and of the masses for the subsequent Monday and
Tuesday. In the passions two parts are indicated by s and c. </note>
</msItem>


</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<supportDesc material="perg">
<support>parchment</support>
<extent>4 leaves <dimensions type="leaf" unit="mm">
<height>248</height>
<width>166</width>
<height>250</height>
<width>165</width>
</dimensions>
<note>Lower margin out</note>
</extent>
</supportDesc>
<layoutDesc>
<layout columns="1" writtenLines="32">32 lines, written space <dimensions type="written" unit="mm">
<height>205</height>
<width>112</width>
<width>110</width>
</dimensions>
</layout>
</layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc>
<handNote script="minusculeCaroline">Written in Caroline minuscule</handNote>
</handDesc>
<decoDesc>
<decoNote type="colInit">Initials alternately in green and red.</decoNote>
</decoDesc>
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</decoDesc>
<bindingDesc>
<binding notAfter="1500" notBefore="1400">
<p>Stamped leather on bevelled boards, with clasps (one injured), late 15th
cent. Flemish (?) work.</p>
<p>s.xv<hi rend="superscript">2</hi> Oxford binding, stamped cover on bevelled boards, with clasps (one injured). See Mirjam Foot, 'English Decorated Bookbindings' in <title>Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475</title>, ed. by Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 71.</p>
</binding>
</bindingDesc>
</physDesc>
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<adminInfo>
<recordHist>
<source>
Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization, binding, and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973). <listBibl>
Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922), with reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization, binding, and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973). <listBibl>
<bibl facs="aap0378.gif" type="SC">Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 357</bibl>
</listBibl>
</source>
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</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
<revisionDesc>
<change when="2025-02">Jemima Bennett: updated binding description.</change>
<change when="2024-11">Description revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.</change>
<change when="2022-04-04">Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.</change>
<change when="2017-07-01">First online publication.</change>
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