Shelfmark
MS 24
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Revelation.
Title
Apocalypse in Latin and English accompanied by Berengaudus' commentary; Odo of Cheriton, sermons on the Sunday Gospels [manuscript].
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: Berengaudus super Apocalypsim, etc.
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Apocalypsis (Latin and English) ; Berengaudus, In Apocalypsim ; Sermones Odonis
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1455.
Physical description
1 v. ; 365 x 240 mm.
Language
All the texts are written in Latin except for the Apocalypse sections in Middle English.
Note
Secundo folio: facere nesciunt.
Note
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (HFFH).
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 260-65 x 150-55 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: iii + 238 + ii.
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Written space: 265 x 152 mm.
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Collation: 1-12¹² 13¹⁴ 14-19¹² 20⁸.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures: indicated with alphabetical letters a-v in bottom right corners, accompanied by Arabic numerals in the first half of the quire. Catch phrases at the end of quires, sometimes accompanied by brief statements such as "finis vndecim q[u]aterni" (f. 206v). Foliation in medieval Arabic numerals on top right corner of leaves (1-78; 1-196) -- numbers restart when the sermons begin.
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Page preparation: ruled in ink, marking the outer borders where the text is written; lacks ruled individual lines within that border. Pricking visible on short margin. Folios 236v-238v have been ruled but not written in.
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Mise-en-page: double columns (53-54 lines) written in a cursive script. Paragraph signs within the texts. Marginal signposts and notes are also often accompanied by paragraph signs. Biblical quotations underlined and highlighted by marginal diples. Some red underlinings, usually corresponding to biblical quotes. Capitulum numbers throughout the Apocalypse. Signposts noting the day of delivery added at the bottom of folios containing sermons.
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Decoration: blue initials (4-6 lines) with red pen flourishes at the beginning of the two main texts (ff.1r, 78v). Simple red initials; guide letters often visible underneath. Occasional line fillers in red.
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Handwriting: littera cursiva; halfway script with typical aspect of secretary (elongated and slanted ascenders/descenders, short "r", diamond-shaped "a") and some elements of Anglicana (double compartment "a", 8-shaped "g", sigma-shaped "s"). One scribe throughout, identified through the colophon as Robert Edyngton, who was working for Sir John Lisle (1405-1471) (see Ker, p. 651 n. 1).
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Punctuation: puncti, puncti elevati and interrogativi.
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Correction: missing text added in the margin.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: maniculae and some signposts added by contemporary annotators. A contemporary contents list has been added on f.ii verso, likely by a former owner named William Horman, who signed his name above the list. Folios 235-236 include an index added in the 16th century with leaf numbers and letter marks. A 17th-century hand has added the name of the main texts on f.1r and infers the book was written in 1454 and adds it to Horman's content list.
Formatted contents note
Contents: ff.1r-78v: the Apocalypse in Latin, the Apocalypse in English (later Wycliffite version) and the commentary appear in this order, chapter by chapter; ff. 78v-234r: Odo of Cheriton, sermons of the Sunday Gospels (66 sermons of the temporale from Advent; sermons for feast days from 3 May to 2 November and for the dedication, 15 in total); f.234r-v: list of these sermons with leaf numbers.
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 650-651
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 11
Citation/references note
Patrologia latina, XVII, cols. 765-970
Citation/references note
F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, no. 1711
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 24
Provenance
Origin: England, Wodehouse on the Isle of Wight. The colophon reads: "Expliciu[n]t omelie Odonis de Cancia | quondam Archiep[iscopi] Cantuare[n]s[is] script[e] | p[er] d[omi]n[u]m Robertu[m] Edyngtone infra hos|piciu[m] strenui militis Ioh[an]nis Lysle apud | Wodehousse iuxta Arden' in vigilia | s[anc]ti Laurencii martiris p[er] ip[su]m d[o]m[inu]m Ro|bertu[m] finaliter conscript[e] anno domini millesimo [quidrigentesi]mo qui[n]quagesimo qui[n]to | li[ber]a d[omi]nic[ali]. E. c c".
Provenance
Provenance: table of contents at f.ii verso header by note: "Liber Will[el]mi Horman". Erasure visible just below the note, but illegible under UV light. Former ECL shelfmark: Bk.2.11.
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 dotted roll on board edges. Spine with seven raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Belingar. in Apocalypsi"; "Sermones Odonis"). Endleaves of modern paper and pre-modern parchment.
Subject
Bible. Revelation Commentaries Manuscripts.
Subject
Bible. Gospels Sermons Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Odo, of Cheriton, Sermones.
Added entry--name
Berengaudus, active approximately 859 - ? In Apocalypsin.
Added entry--name
Horman, William, ? - -1535 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lisle, John,, 1405 - 1471 Sir associated name.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Isle of Wight.
Language code
lat eng lat
Identifier
B49972