Shelfmark
MS 12
Author
Gregory, ca. 540 - 604 I Pope
Uniform title
[Moralia in Job. Books 17-33]
Title
Commentary on the Book of Job [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: S. Gregorii Magni Moralia
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job, pars 2
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1200-1225.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 360 x 245 mm.
Language
Written in Latin. Attempts at writing Greek letters at lower end of Psalm 29.
Note
Secundo folio: intentione omnique.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF).
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Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 290 x 173 mm.
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Number of leaves: iv + 232 + iv.
Note
Collation: 1-29⁸.
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Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: quire signatures on last folio verso, occasionally decorated with pen flourishes. Leaf signatures only on first quire, roughly executed. Catchwords mostly trimmed out.
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Page preparation: ruled in plummet. Pricking visible on both margins.
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Mise-en-page: double columns (38 lines) written in a set script above the first ruled line. Biblical quotes are highlighted by double red underlinings and marginal nota signs. The text presents hairline strokes above "i" that postdate the first copying of the text, as the ink matches that of a later 13th-century annotating hand. Running headers in ink, occasionally decorated with black pen flourishes. Rubrics. Chapter marks. Guide letters for small initials in the margin, often trimmed out.
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Decoration: illuminated initials of raised gold on rose and blue ground with penwork foliage infill (4-27 lines) or, in one case, a zoomorphic creature on the scrollwork (f.30r); one historiated initial depicting Jesus on gold ground (f.11r); blue and red penwork initials (3-36 lines); occasional ink decoration spreading from descenders of minims into the bas-de-page, either pen flourishes or zoomorphic details (f.46r). Red, blue, green, and yellow capitals to indicate incipit of new book.
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Handwriting: littera praegothica; one scribal hand.
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Abbreviation and punctuation: use of & as opposed to Tironian nota. Punctuation presents puncti, puncti elevati, interrogativi, and versi.
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Corrections: few inter linea. Some marginalia has been erased with a knife, but is still visible.
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Marginalia, later additions: a late 13th-century Anglicana hand has added marginal comments, corrections, signposts, and some catchwords in a light brown ink -- including hairline strokes to "i". Another contemporary hand writing in plummet has added a few marginal comments; a third one has added chapter numbers in ink (Anglicana). A ?15th-century hand also added comments (e.g. folio facing the last folio of 20th quire).
Note
Accompanying material: pastedowns are fragments from a codex written in southern textualis, likely Italian, dating to the 14th century. They contain a commentary to the Decretals of Gregory IX.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff. 1-232: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, books 17-33 (ends imperfectly); ff. ii, 235: leaves from a commentary on the Decretals of Gregory IX (on book 2.xxv.99-12 and book 2.xxvi.17.18), copied in 14th-century Italy.
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 638
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 6
Citation/references note
Patrologia latina, lxxvi, cols.9-697/26
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 12
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: the medieval signature "petrus de tanton' " is written in plummet at f. 156r. Early modern notes on f. iv verso, listing the contents of the volume and its 16th-century edition. Crest of Eton college on front pastedown. Former ECL shelfmarks: Bp.1.10, Bk.1.12, Bl.10.
Binding
18th-century calfskin over pasteboards by John Slatter c.1715. Covers decorated with blind double fillets to form a border; blind roll to form a panel in the centre of the board with blind tools at its corners; gilt dotted roll on board edges. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Gregorii Moral. In Iob."). Textblock trimmed and dyed blue. Endpapers of modern and early modern undecorated paper as well as manuscript waste (see description above, "Accompanying material"), presumably taken by Slatter from the older binding.
Subject
Bible. Job Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Gregory, ca. 1170 - 1241 IX Pope. Decretals.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49963