Morality

On this page, you can learn more about the various western medieval manuscripts in St John’s College Library that engage with the topic of morality.

Oxford, St John’s College, MS 61, fol. 10v

MS 61

MS 61 is a bestiary, a kind of encyclopedia of animals (both real and fantastical) with moral lessons. The folio shown here treats griffins and elephants. MS 61 was produced in York in the late thirteenth century and is extensively illuminated.

A full catalogue entry is available here.

Oxford, St John’s College, MS 137, fol. 1r

MS 137

MS 137 contains a copy of Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius moralizatus, a moralisation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This manuscript was produced in England at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and it was once owned by Thomas Eborall (master of Whittington College London, 1444–1464).

A full catalogue entry is available here.

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