Shelfmark
MS 32 (2)
Author
Thomas,, ca. 1287 - 1350? Waleys
Title
Thomas Wallensis, In Psalterium. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Wallensis super Psalmos
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1425 and ca. 1475.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 97-216 [i.e. 120 leaves]) : parchment ; 30 x 20 cm.
Note
Commentary on Psalms 1-20 by Thomas Waleys, with a table of contents on ff. 212-216v; ff. 97-216 in a composite volume of ff. ii, 216.
Note
Numbers in the margins divide the text into 376 sections, and are used in the table on the final leaves with further subdivisions lettered a-c.
Note
Written space: ca. 220 x 145 mm.
Note
Layout: two columns of ca. 45 lines.
Note
Frame ruling.
Note
Collation: 1-7¹² 9¹⁰ 10¹⁶.
Note
Written in secretary hand.
Note
3-line (f. 97) and 2-line initials, not filled in.
Note
Secundo folio (f. 98): verbum psalmiste.
Note
Bound at Eton in the first half of the 16th century with another manuscript, here catalogued separately as MS 32 (1).
Note
The previous limp parchment cover was removed by the binder Andrew Lisley, and used as the wrapper of building accounts of Eton College for 10 Henry VIII (COLL/BA/24), with cover title 'Wallensis super psalterium partim usque ad Psalmum 20 Domine in virtute tua'.
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 colums 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: Miscellanea theologica, written in England in the second half of the 13th century, MS 32 (1) q.v., forming ff. 1-96 of the volume as bound.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 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. 97-216.
Binding
16th century English calf binding by Lisley, ca. 1521.
Subject
Bible. Psalms Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49980