Shelfmark
MS 13
Author
Gregory, approximately 540 - 604 I, Pope
Uniform title
[Moralia in Job]
Title
Commentary on the Book of Job [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: S. Gregori Magni Moralia
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1225-1275.
Physical description
1 v. : ill ; 413 x 265 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Secundo folio: filius cuius.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF).
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 310-314 x 188-194 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: iii + 213 + ii.
Note
Accompanying material: the manuscript waste in this volume belongs to a manuscript written in England in the second half of the 14th century. Its leaves were used by Eton's binder, Williamson, in the early 17th century in this and other volumes, prompting N.R. Ker to hypothesise that they may represent the remnants of the listed item "concordaunce of ii partes" in Eton's 1465 inventory (transcribed by James, 1921, p. 443).
Note
Collation: 1⁸ 2-18¹² + 1 leaf.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: quire signatures for quires 2-18, in roman numerals I-XVII. Some leaf signatures numbered a-f (e.g. quires 12, 14, 16, 17). Some catchwords are included, see quires 4-18.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink and plummet. Pricking has been trimmed out.
Note
Mise-en-page: triple (f. 1r: 63 lines) and double columns (ff. 1v-8: 65 lines; ff. 9-213: 70 lines) written in a set script below the top ruled line. Rubrics. Running headers. Chapter numbers. The quotes from the biblical text are highlighted by marginal visual cues inserted in a specially ruled column. Paragraph marks. Maniculae by different readers.
Note
Decoration: ff. 1-8: red and blue initials (2-13 lines) with pen flourishes. Red and blue capitals; ff. 9-213: red and blue initials (29 lines - full page) with pen flourishes, which sometimes form a frame. Running headers and chapter numbers in alternate red and blue capitals. Minims and infills of capital letters decorated in red.
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Handwriting: littera textualis libraria; two scribal hands: a scribe copied the summary (ff.1-8) and another the Commentary (ff.9-123).
Note
Abbreviation and punctuation: Tironian nota with cross-bar; the text of the vision of Taio (f. 8r) uses solely &, which may indicate it was copied from a different exemplar. Punctuation includes puncti and puncti elevati.
Note
Correction: in-line erasures or interlinear additions. Missing words added in the margin by the main scribe.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: the MS has been annotated by many readers. There are comments in 13th- and 14th-century Anglicana hands. A 14th/15th-century hand added 'Nota pro lollardis' (f. 100r) next to passage mentioning heretics. Fewer notes in plummet. Different visual cues, including differently-styled maniculae, are another sign of different annotators. Nota ligatures. Medieval notes in four different hands on f.vii recto. Ker has identified the hand of Robert Elyot (vice Provost of Eton, d. 1499) on f. 121r. Additional early modern notes on f.iii verso about content of volume and 16th-century edition.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff. i, rear pastedown: fragment from letter C of Concordaunces maiores (Carnes-Causa; Cetamen-Cessare); ff. 1-8r: summary of contents; f. 8r: vision of Taio (rubric: "Hic visio per totam hyspaniam scripta invenitur in principio moralium"); f.8v: blank; ff. 8-213: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob.
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 638-639
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, lxxv, col. 509-lxxvi, col. 782
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 'Chapel inventories', Etoniana, series I, no. 28 (1921), p. 443
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, 'The English manuscripts of the Moralia of Gregory the Great', Kunsthistorische Forschungen Otto Pächt zu Ehren (1972), p. 82
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 13
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: at Eton by late 15th-century, in light of Robert Elyot's notes. Ms. note of price in M.R. James's hand in ECL interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive Catalogue. College crest on front pastedown. Former ECL shelfmarks: Bk.1.13, Bl.1.11.
Binding
Early 17th-century dark brown calf over pasteboards by Williamson of Eton. Covers decorated with triple blind fillets to form a border. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Greg: Mag: Moral: in Iob"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red and green. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper and manuscript waste.
Subject
Bible. Job Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent binder.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49964