Shelfmark
MS 32 (1)
Title
Miscellanea theologica. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: St. Bernardi etc. Tractatus
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1325.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. ii, 1-96) : parchment ; 30 x 20 cm.
Note
Miscellaneous devotional pieces, most of them by or attributed to St Bernard and St Anselm, and compendia of Gregory's Moralia (ff. 11-19) and of Vitas Patrum (ff. 22-35), forming ff. ii, 96 in a composite volume of ff. ii, 216.
Note
The component pieces are identified in Ker, as cited below.
Note
Written space: ca. 215 x 145 mm.
Note
Layout: two columns of 49 lines.
Note
An incorrect medieval foliation ends at '52' on f. 50.
Note
Collation: 1¹⁰ 2-4¹² 5² (ff. 47. 48) 6-9¹².
Note
Ad hoc signatures in pencil.
Note
Part of the text on f. 49 (''Liber beati bernardi edditus abati cluniacensi de dissiplina monacorum') was recopied on f. 47 with a further section added, in a 15th century non-current hybrida script.
Note
Initials in blue with red ornament; capital letters in the text filled with pale yellow.
Note
Secundo folio: aliquando.
Note
Bound at Eton in the first half of the 16th century with another manuscript, here catalogued separately as MS 32 (2).
Note
The front flyleaf f. ii is inscribed with miscellaneous pieces including charms for toothache and nose-bleeding on the recto, and verses and a French prayer on the verso, most in a late 13th-century hand, probably the same which wrote the inscription containing dates 1261 and 1265 at the head of the leaf (see provenance note); others are in a 15th-century hand.
Note
A conjoint pair of leaves form the pastedown and flyleaf at either end of the volume as rebound: in the front, the first bifolium of a quire of a mid 15th-century theological manuscript written in 2 columns of ca. 43 lines in frame ruling, in an English secretary hand (cf. also ECL MSS 34 and 107); and at the end, a bifolium of a late 13th-century copy of the Institutes of Justinian, i.5,6 with surrounding apparatus.
Note
On the evidence of the binding, at Eton by 1521.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.3.8.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
With note
Bound with: Thomas Wallensis, In Psalterium, written in England in the mid-15th century, MS 32 (2) q.v., forming ff. 97-216 of the volume as bound.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 659-661
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 32
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 32, ff. ii, 1-96
Provenance
Inscribed by an owner or reader at the head of f. ii: 'iii idus octobris anno domini m⁰ cc⁰ lx⁰ i⁰ fui admissus cum custode. Anno domini m.cc.lxv fui institutus [...]' and at the head of f. 1: 'Edewardus de valle scolarium ordine fecit quandam su[m]mam sermonum [...] et incipit. Letabor ego super eloquai et thema est Sicut letancium omnium habitacio'. Probably the same hand responsible for other miscellaneous annotations on the same leaf.
Provenance
Note of price paid on f. 94v, and the number '4' on f. ii.
Binding
16th century English calf binding by Lisley, ca. 1521.
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Bernard, 1090 or 91 - 1153 of Clairvaux. Saint
Added entry--name
Anselm,, 1033 - 1109 Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49979