MS 32 (1)
Miscellanea theologica. manuscript
Title in M. R. James catalogue: St. Bernardi etc. Tractatus
England, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1325.
1 volume (ff. ii, 1-96) : parchment ; 30 x 20 cm.
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.
The component pieces are identified in Ker, as cited below.
Written space: ca. 215 x 145 mm.
Layout: two columns of 49 lines.
An incorrect medieval foliation ends at '52' on f. 50.
Collation: 1¹⁰ 2-4¹² 5² (ff. 47. 48) 6-9¹².
Ad hoc signatures in pencil.
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.
Initials in blue with red ornament; capital letters in the text filled with pale yellow.
Secundo folio: aliquando.
Bound at Eton in the first half of the 16th century with another manuscript, here catalogued separately as MS 32 (2).
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.
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.
On the evidence of the binding, at Eton by 1521.
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.3.8.
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
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.
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 659-661
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 32
Eton College Library, MS 32, ff. ii, 1-96
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.
Note of price paid on f. 94v, and the number '4' on f. ii.
16th century English calf binding by Lisley, ca. 1521.
Theology Manuscripts.
Bernard, 1090 or 91 - 1153 of Clairvaux. Saint
Anselm,, 1033 - 1109 Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
England.
lat
B49979