Shelfmark
MS 8
Author
Title
On Psalms 1-100 [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: Rob. Grosthed (Grossetete) in c. psalmos
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: R. Grosseteste, In Psalmos 1-100
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1400-1500.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 385 x 250 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Secundo folio: et venit.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF).
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 260 x 155 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: iii + 216 + iii.
Note
Collation: 1-27⁸.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: quires 1-19 lettered a-v; after this the scribe seems to have gone back to "a" and have written the quire letter after as well as before the leaf number (e.g. "f 2 f" on f. 194), but most signatures have been cut off. Catchwords.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in plummet. No pricking visible.
Note
Mise-en-page: double columns (52 lines) written in a halfway script. Red and blue paragraph signs. The incipit of each new section is in a larger script, taking up two lines. Marginal capital letters (A-G) used to improve text navigation.
Note
Decoration: burnished gold initials (10 lines) on particoloured blue and purple ground (ff.1r, 1v). On f. 1r: two-sided frame of sprays tipped with green and gold ivy leaves. Blue initials with red pen flourishes extending along the text's column. Red and blue initials with pen flourishes.
Note
Handwriting: northern littera textualis currens; one scribe has copied Grosseteste's commentary (1-203) and another the index (ff. 205-216). Gaps within the text appear throughout the first text, suggesting that the exemplar that the scribe was copying from was imperfect, or that they could not read it.
Note
Correction: few omissions from the text, inserted in the margin by the main scribe.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: an early modern hand added a "title" for this volume on f.1r.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff. 1-203: Robert Grosseteste, In psalmos 1-100; f. 204: blank; ff. 205-226: index to the commentary.
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 636-637
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 5
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 8
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 3092
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: the binding suggests that the book was at Eton by the early 17th century. Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown. Former ECL shelfmarks: Bp.3.3, Bk.1.8, Bl.1.5.
Binding
Early 17th-century calfskin over wood boards by Williamson of Eton in 1600-1601; repaired by R.L. Day (1960-70). Covers decorated with "two bands of the Herculis-Vena [i.e. Venus] roll. In the panel, a large lozenge-shaped compartment, framed by fillets. The roll has been applied to the inside of the bevel. Clasps on upper cover. Chain mark on low outside edge of upper cover." (Robert Birley's personal notes on Eton book bindings, II, no. 195). Spine rebacked with six raised bands and decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Ro. Grosthed in centum psalmos."). Textblock sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper, including pastedowns.
Subject
Bible. Psalms Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent binder.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49959