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Shelfmark

MS 20

Author

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.

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Written space: c.240 x c.170 mm.

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Number of leaves: i + 176 + ii.

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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).

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Collation: 1-22⁸.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Abbreviation and punctuation: use of Tironian nota; ÷ for "esse". Puncti, puncti elevati and flexi.

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Correction: missing text added in the margins.

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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.

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Day, R. L. binder.

Added entry--place

England.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B49968
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