Shelfmark
MS 23
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Minor Prophets.
Title
Glossed Books of Minor Prophets [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: XII. Prophetae cum glossa
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Prophetas Minores glossatae
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1225-1275.
Physical description
1 v. : initials ; 355 x 235 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Secundo folio: per heliseum (main text); ne contionem (gloss).
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF).
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: up to 220 x 153 mm including gloss.
Note
Number of leaves: iv + 110 + iv.
Note
Collation: 1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5-6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8¹² 9⁸ 10¹² 11¹⁰ 12⁸.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: Roman numerals written in plummet or crayon at the bottom centre of the first page of quires 3-7, 9, 11, 12 (8 faded). Symbols accompanied by leaf signatures in quires 1 and 10 in the same location. Quire 1 additionally has a Roman numeral at the bottom of its last folio verso, while quire 12 also has a symbol (letter Y) accompanied by leaf signatures. Quire 2 shows faded letters as leaf signatures. Some catchwords have not been trimmed out.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink and plummet; pricking often visible on short margins, that on long margin often trimmed out.
Note
Mise-en-page: up to three columns of variable width, written in a set script below the top line. Biblical text written on every 2 lines or every other line, for a total between 4-26 lines per page. Gloss written in columns adjacent to the main text, for a total between 43-51 lines, as well as inter linea. Additional commentary added in cursive hands fill much of the surrounding space; even if there is no special ruling for this "layer" of commentary it often seems there are 4 to 5 columns on the page. Rubrics. Capitulum numbers. Running headers. Paraphs. Parchment tags mark the beginning of each prophet's book.
Note
Decoration: red and blue decorated initials with foliage infills and pen flourishing (5-24 lines). Minor initials in red or blue, sometimes with pen flourishes. Elongated paraphs. Exaggerated descenders on last ruled line with pen flourishes in red and blue. Running headers in alternating red and blue capitals.
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Handwriting: littera textualis for both biblical text and gloss, larger and slightly more formal for the former. Additional marginal commentary in different cursive hands, some of which write in Anglicana; most of these scribes use ink, but at least one used plummet.
Note
Abbreviations: use of Tironian nota with crossbar.
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Correction: mostly done by knife erasure; individual words stricken through to indicate a mistake.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: explanations and comments provided as non-standard glosses to the text in the margins; diagrams also summarise content. At least two hands. Sometimes one of the annotators uses plummet rather than ink. Folio iv verso shows a table of contents and mnemonic verses about the prophets by two secretary hands -- that at the bottom may be Robert Elyot's (Ker, p. 650).
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 649-650
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 11
Citation/references note
F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, nos. 519+517, after 526, 530 after 531, 532 after 535, after 538, 540, after 539 545 after 543
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 23
Provenance
Origin: England. Folio iv has been cut at the top, and there are erasures on folios ii verso and 1r. The former begins 'Iste liber constat domino', and M.R. James suggested the final word may be Quarreria (see ECL MS 14).
Provenance
Provenance: if the hand at f.iv verso is Elyot's, the book was at Eton by 1500. Former ECL shelfmark: Bk.2.10.
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 ("xii. proph. cum. gloss."). Endleaves of modern paper and pre-modern parchment.
Subject
Bible. Prophets Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 annotator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49971