Shelfmark
MS 35
Author
Thomas, 1225? - 1274 Aquinas, Saint
Uniform title
[Quaestiones disputatae. Selections]
Title
Thomas Aquinas. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Thomae quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1300.
Physical description
1 volume (vii, 178, iv leaves) : parchment ; 33 x 24 cm.
Note
Four works by St Thomas Aquinas: [1] De spiritualibus creaturibus (ff. 1-16); [2] De potentia Dei (ff. 17-94v); [3] De malo (ff. 95-166v); [4] a commentary on Aristotle '[S]icut philosophus dicit in x ethicorum ...', previously attributed by M. R. James to Aegidius Romanus.
Note
Item [3] ends imperfectly; two leaves from the next quire were used to bind a 'rough copy' of the Eton College bursar's accounts for 1646 and now form pp. 51-4 in ECL MS 219 (q.v.).
Note
Formerly blank leaf 178v, once pasted down, contains a table of contents and other writing, much rubbed; at the top, 'lib ... continet xvi (or xvi) pecias'.
Note
Written space: 245 x 170 mm.
Note
Two columns of 60 lines (46 lines in item [4]).
Note
Collation: 1-2⁸ 3-8¹² 9⁸ (ff. 89-94) 10-15¹² 16 two (=MS 219, pp. 51-4, a bifolium) 17¹² wants 5-8 after f. 170, 18 four (ff. 175-8).
Note
A new hand starts at item [4] (f. 167), writing Aristotle's text in textura and Aquinas's commentary smaller in incipient book-hand anglicana.
Note
3-line and 2-line initials in blue with red ornament, omitted after f. 166.
Note
Secundo folio: adueniens.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1715.
Note
Ff. vi and vii are two conjoint leaves taken over from an older binding (f. vi recto was pasted down) no later than the 15th century, taken from a mid-13th century treatise on the Trinity, written in 2 columns of 27+ lines in a fine large hand between double ruled lines.
Note
At Eton by 1500 on the evidence of a typical head by Robert Elyot (d. 1499) on f. 61; marginal annotations, chiefly ff. 1-40.
Note
15th century inscription of John Grene; see provenance note below.
Note
Four leaves are missing after f. 170v, which ends 'quo multiplicantur intelligentie'; f. 171 begins 'signanter autem dicit'.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.3.11.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 664
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 35
Citation/references note
Dondaine and Shooner, Codices manuscripti operum Thomae de Aquino, nos. 806 and 811, 3
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 35
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; 3119
Provenance
Annotations by Robert Elyot (d. 1499), Vice Provost of Eton.
Provenance
A 15th-century table of contents and inscription 'liber M. I. Grene' with price note (d. 1484) who owned Magdalen College, Oxford, MSS 121-132.
Binding
Early 18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 former owner.
Added entry--name
Greene, John, ? - 1484 former owner.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49982