Shelfmark
MS 22
Author
Jerome, ? - -419 or 420 Saint
Uniform title
[Commentarii in Prophetas Minores]
Title
Commentary on the Minor Prophets [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: S. Hieronymus In xii Prophetas
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Jeronimus, In Prophetas Minores
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1225-1275.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 385 x 270 mm.
Language
Written in Latin. Quoted Greek words are transliterated inter linea.
Note
Secundo folio: tue prudentie.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF).
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Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 278 x 168 mm.
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Number of leaves: vi + 210 + iv.
Note
Accompanying material: ff. iv-vi recto, 210v-213r contain notes written with plummet. Ker suggests they may be theological in nature, and mostly dating to the 13th century (p. 649).
Note
Collation: 1-2¹² 3¹⁰ 4-7¹² 8¹⁰ 9-17¹² 18¹⁰.
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Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: quires numbered in Roman numerals at the bottom of last folio verso.
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Page preparation: ruled in ink and plummet; pricking mostly cut out, but sometimes visible on both margins.
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Mise-en-page: double columns (46 lines) written in a set script below the top ruled line. Rubrics. Running headers. Capitulum numbers. Marginal signposts; nota signs and letter "A" standing as a nota bene. Large ink dots added at the side of the column signal biblical quotes.
Note
Decoration: red and blue decorated initials with foliage infills and pen flourishing (4-16 lines); minor initials in red and blue, or black with red pen flourishes. Running headers and capitulum numbers written in alternating red and blue capitals. Exaggerated descenders on last ruled line -- occasionally the same pattern is used on ascenders on the first ruled line. Marginal paragraph marks and nota signs sometimes include pen flourishes. Capital letters on ff.1r-3r have been filled with yellow ink.
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Handwriting: northern littera textualis; one scribal hand.
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Abbreviation and punctuation: use of Tironian nota with crossbar; puncti and puncti elevati.
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Correction: missing words or text added to the margin by the scribe of the main text.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: a 13th-century annotator added signposts in Anglicana; notes also added in plummet (possibly a 14th-century hand); other signposts added in at least one secretary hand (late 14th/15th century). Folio 1r includes a note in a 14th-century Anglicana: "L. Ieronimus super xxi prophetas"; the same hand seems to have added the letter P(?) just above the note. Ker infers that the notes at ff. 43r, 55r are Thomas Gascoigne's (p. 649) - no reference is made to whether it is known that he visited Eton, or if it is possible that the booked was momentarily moved from the College.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff.1r-210r: Jerome on the minor prophets (from Hosea to Malachi).
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 648-649
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 10
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 'Chapel inventories', Etoniana, series I, no. 28 (1921), p. 444
Citation/references note
Patrologia latina, XXV, cols. 815-1578
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 22
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: the volume is listed in Eton's book inventory of 1465 (no. 4 in edited version by M.R. James). The hand of Sir Robert Elyot has been identified on f. 77r by Ker (p. 649). Former ECL shelfmarks: Bk.2.9, Bl.2.9.
Binding
18th-century calfskin over pasteboards by John Slatter, c.1715. Covers decorated with blind double fillers to form a border; blind roll to form a panel in the centre of the board with blind tools at its outer corners; gilt roll on board edges. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Hieronym: in: 12. proph."). Endleaves of modern paper and pre-modern parchment.
Subject
Bible. Prophets Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Gascoigne, Thomas, 1403 - 1458 annotator.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 annotator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49970