Oxford St John's College Lib. MS LXIX
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Jump to navigationJump to searchContents: Chapter list (fols. 1r-7v), 1 Dial. (fols. 8r-293r), Tabula (fols. 293v -303). 1 Dial. books 2-7 begin at 16v, 37r, 44v, 62r, 94r, 200v.
From the British Academy description:
- Published Information: See O. Coxe , Catalogus Codicum MSS qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur, Pars I, 1852. Fifteenth century. According to note on fol. 293r, the MS was bought from Eli the Jew by Cardinal de Varambone in 1444. According to note on fol. 2r, it was given to St John's College by John Fisher, bishop of Rochester (d. 1535).
- Observations: There are summaries at the beginning of each chapter (see 10r), and there is a table of these at the beginning of the MS (see 1r). The summaries show no particular resemblance to d'Ailly's Abbreviatio or to the chapter summaries of Ly. There are some lengthy marginal annotations, some of which supply omissions, some give additional references or quotations from authorities, and some are criticisms of the argument (e.g. 17r, 31v, 32r, 34v, 35r, 37r, 42r, 45v, 54v); cropping of the edges of pages makes some of these difficult to follow. Ox also includes the alphabetic tabula found also in Av, Vf and Vc, begining at 293v, possibly in different writing.
- Collation shows that Ox belongs to the family that includes Av Vf Vc. It is especially close to Av. However, there are passages not found in Ox but found in Av or vice versa, found also in many other witnesses; this seems to rule out the possibility that either was copied, directly or indirectly, from the other.
