Shelfmark
MS 1
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Old Testament
Title
Dictionary of Hebrew names ; Bible, v. 1 [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: Biblia sacra
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Biblia
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1200-1230.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 420 x 280 mm.
Language
Written in Latin; includes Hebrew names in Latin script.
Note
Secundo folio: vel clericus.
Note
Material: membrane -- ff. 1-5: HFFH, HF, HFFH; ff. 10-176: Gregory's rule FHHF.
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: ff. 1-5: 325 x 230-5 mm; ff. 10-176: 240 x 150 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: viii + 176 + v.
Note
Collation:1⁴ (wants 1), 2² 3⁴ 4-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁴ + 1 leaf after 4 (f. 62), 10-20¹⁰ 21⁴.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: some leaf signatures in red roman numerals and letters, although most have been trimmed out. Catchwords mostly trimmed out, see remaining examples at ff. 57v, 122v, 151r.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink, mostly faded. Pricking sometimes visible on long edge.
Note
Mise-en-page: ff. 1-5: three columns (63-66 lines) written in a set but rapid hand on the first ruled line. Red and green line fillers. ff. 10-176: double columns (58 lines) written in a set hand on the first ruled line. Rubrics. Running headers, paragraph marks, and capitulum marks written in alternating red and blue letters. Substantial corrections or marginalia are enclosed in single-line circles or boxes. There are a few guide notes written in plummet referencing running headers, probably meant for the rubricator / illuminator (e.g. ff. 123r, 151r).
Note
Decoration: ff. 1-5: red and green initials with pen flourishes. Hebrew names in alternating red and green initials. ff. 10-176: historiated initials at ff. 1r (a scribe), 12v (genesis sequence), 158v (King David playing the harp), 172v (Christ). Illuminated initials (10-58 lines) in gold, blue, pink, and green with foliage infills and motifs; zoomorphic details within initials at ff. 70r, 112v, 144r, 148r, 166v, 171r; red cloth has been attached over illuminations at ff. 36r, 53v. Red and blue capitals; red and blue smaller initials with pen flourishes from f.159r.
Note
Handwriting: northern littera textualis. Two different scribes copied ff. 1-5 and 10-176.
Note
Correction: frequent missing words or sentences.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: none significant.
Formatted contents note
Contents: First volume of a two-volume Bible (shelfmark of second volume: MS 2). ff. 1-5: a dictionary of Hebrew names (begins imperfectly: Arody-Zusym), immediately followed by a note on the Three Kings; ff. 6-9: blank membrane; ff. 10-176: Genesis-Psalms (Gallican version).
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 632-633
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 1
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 1.
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: 15th-century note on first flyleaf verso: "Ex dono magistri Spenser Anno Domini 1496". Former ECL shelfmarks: Bl.1.1; Bk.1.1.
Binding
18th-century diced calfskin over paste/millboards by John Slatter c.1715. Covers decorated with double blind fillets and roll to form a panel with tools at the corners; gilt roll over board edges. Spine rebacked with gilt titling over red morocco label ("Biblia Latina Tom. [I.]"), blind tooling at the tail-end ("1496"). Endpapers of undecorated modern laid paper. Repaired by R. L. Day in 1970.
Subject
Bible. Manuscripts.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English 13th century.
Subject
Manuscripts, Latin (medieval and modern) England.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat heb
Identifier
B49951