Shelfmark
MS 20
Author
Haimo, ? - -approximately 855 of Auxerre
Uniform title
[Annotatio libri Isaiae prophetae]
Title
Commentary on the Book of Isaiah ; Liber festivalis [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: Haymo in Esaiam
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Haimo, In Isaiam ; Alexander de Essebie, Liber festivalis
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1175-1200.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 330 x 240 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Secundo folio: [transire fe]cerit; tertio folio: extremis.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF). Hair follicles often visible; some tears to the lower corners of folios and stitches in plain thread.
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: c.240 x c.170 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: i + 176 + ii.
Note
Written space: 240 x 170 mm.
Note
Accompanying material: the manuscript waste that originally served as lower endleaf and pastedown of this volume is a bifolium belonging to a copy of Innocent IV's Decretals written in England in the second half of the thirteenth century. Its leaves were used by the 16th-century binder Andrew Lisley in this volume and ECL MS 14 (Ker, pp. 646-647).
Note
Collation: 1-22⁸.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: few quire signatures remaining (ff.40v, 151v) in roman numerals. No catchwords. Arabic medieval numerals 1-64 appear in the top right corner of some rectos between ff.1-160 -- it remains unclear what they indicate.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink and plummet. Pricking visible on both margins.
Note
Mise-en-page: double columns (37 lines) in a set script written above the first ruled line. Few rubrics. Biblical quotes highlighted with marginal diples. From the beginning of the Liber festivalis (f.166r): marginal rubricated signposts.
Note
Decoration: red and blue initials (6-9 lines) filled by stylised foliage in green, blue and pink, with title in alternating red and blue capitals (f.1r); red and blue minor initials with floral infills and arabesque finials (2-20 lines) and some pen flourishing. Some guide letters visible in the margin.
Note
Handwriting: littera praegothica; multiple scribal hands.
Note
Abbreviation and punctuation: use of Tironian nota; ÷ for "esse". Puncti, puncti elevati and flexi.
Note
Correction: missing text added in the margins.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: notes by different hands, 13th-15th centuries. They include explanations, signposts, chapter numbers, nota signs. Maniculae added in plummet.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff.1-165v: Haimo of Auxerre on the Book of Isaiah; ff.166-175v: Alexander, Prior of Canons Ashby, Liber Festivalis (book I only).
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 646-647
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), pp. 9-10
Citation/references note
Patrologia latina, cxvi, cols. 715-1086
Citation/references note
F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, no. 3083
Citation/references note
H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris Latinorum. Carmina Medii Aevi Posterioris Latina, I. (1959), no. 13254
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 20
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 2117
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: at Eton since the 16th century. Former ECL shelfmarks: Bk.2.7, Bl.2.
Binding
16th-century calfskin over wood boards, likely bound for Eton College by Andrew Lisley in 1520-21. Covers decorated with blind tools: "frame composed of a band of contiguous saltire crosses. The panel has a criss-cross of diagonal fillets with the same stamp of a cross. Back, straight vertical fillets. Clasps on upper cover. Chain mark low on outside edge of upper cover. Nail marks of horn shield, covering the label, on the lower cover" (from Robert Birley's personal notes, II, n. 201). Spine with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and red morocco label with gilt titling ("Haymo in Esaiam"); former shelfmark labels at the tail; repairs to the joints by R.L. Day. Modern endpapers of undecorated laid paper at the lower end of the textblock.
Subject
Bible. Isaiah Commentaries Manuscripts.
Subject
Fasts and feasts Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Alexander, active 12th century - 13th century of Ashby Liber festivalis.
Added entry--name
Innocent, approximately 1200 - 1254 IV, Pope. Decretals
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 binder.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49968