Shelfmark
MS 38
Title
Sermones, etc. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Bernardi Homiliae, etc.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1125 and ca. 1175.
Physical description
1 volume (iii, 215, ii leaves) : parchment ; 28.5 x 19.3 cm.
Note
A collection of sermons and short pieces ascribed to St Bernard, Clairvaux Abbey or Rievaulx Abbey; also sermons ascribed to Robert Pulleyn, Hugh of St Victor, St Augustine and others.
Note
[1] ff. 1-136v: Eighty-four sermons and short pieces (mostly extracts only from the sermons of St Bernard), the first 78 for the church year from Advent, temporale and sanctorale, in one series. The majority are ascribed by initials or other abbreviations in red in the margins to Abbas Clarevallensis or Bernardus Abbas Clarevallensis or Abbas Rievallensis. Nearly the same collection in a different order is in Jesus College, Oxford, MS 6, and Lambeth Palace, MS 497. The pieces are numbered in the margins and mostly listed on f. iii (recto and verso) in a 15th-century hand, probably Robert Elyot's; the numbering goes wrong after 56. See Ker for the occasions, ascriptions and incipits with a key to the order in the Jesus manuscript.
Note
[2] ff. 136v-151v: Five sermons ascribed to Robert Pulleyn, nos. 16-19, 2 in the list of Pulleyn's sermons by F. Courtney in Analecta Gregoriana 44 (1954), pp. 33-35. All five are in Lambeth Palace MS 497, the first four in the same order as here.
Note
[3] f. 151v: Extract from Hugh of St Victor on Ecclesiastes, homily 16.
Note
[4] ff. 152-154v: St Augustine, Liber de quatuor virtutibus charitatis.
Note
[5] ff. 154v-162: St Augustine, De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, here attributed to 'beati pape leonis', presumably Pope Leo IX.
Note
[6] ff. 162-168: Two further sermons ascribed to Robert Pulley, nos. 5 and 4 in F. Courtney's list above.
Note
[7] ff. 168-203v: Hugh of St Victor on Lamentations.
Note
[8] ff. 203v-210v: Drogo, Meditatio in Passionem et Resurrectionem Domini.
Note
[9] ff. 210v-212v: Five short sections of homilies or extracts, unattributed.
Note
[10] ff. 212v-214: Sermon by Robert Pulleyn, unattributed; no. 11 in F. Courtney's list.
Note
[11] ff. 214v-215r: 'De superedificantibus lignum fenum stipulam', attributed to 'A.C.' [Abbas Clarevallensis]; printed in Opera Bernardi, Paris, 1517m f. 90v.
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Written space: 225 x 140 mm.
Note
Two columns of 38 lines.
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Ruled with pencil.
Note
Pricks in both margins of quire 2 (only, ?) to guide ruling; of the ruled lines, 1, 3, 35, 37, 38 are usually extended into the margins.
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Collation: 1⁸ wants 1 (blank?) 2-27⁸.
Note
Quires numbered at the end.
Note
Well written, with 'line' punctuation in the curly form found in Cirencester manuscripts on ff. 84v, 85, where the hand is perhaps different from that elsewhere. See N.R. Ker, English manuscripts in the century after the Norman conquest, p. 47 and pl. 20a,b.
Note
Initials.
Note
Secundo folio: Et hec quidem.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1715.
Note
Written in England, perhaps in the Gloucestershire region, to judge from the script.
Note
Two pledging entries on f. 215v; see provenance notes below.
Note
On the evidence of inscriptions in the hand of Robert Elyot, at Eton by 1500.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.4.2.
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. 666-672
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 38
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 38
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SN 4707
Provenance
Pledged at Oxford in 1460 by Robert Selby, f. 215v: 'Caucio domini Roberti Selby exposita in Cista exonie Anno domini m° cccc° lx° v° die mensis Octobris ... ', with price 'xxvi s viii d'.
Provenance
Another pledging entry on f. 215: 'C cum tribus supplementis ...' over erasure, and followed by the mark of the stationer, probably John Doll, and the price 'xxvi s viii d'.
Provenance
Another price on f. 215v in a later hand: 'x s'.
Provenance
Marginalia and other annotations in the hand of Robert Elyot (d. 1499), vice provost of Eton; see item [1] above.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Sermons Early works to 1800 Manuscripts.
Subject
Cistercians Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Bernard, 1090 or 1091 - 1153 of Clairvaux, Saint
Added entry--name
Hugh,, 1096? - 1141 of Saint-Victor
Added entry--name
Augustine, 354 - 430 of Hippo, Saint
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 former owner.
Added entry--name
Selby, Robert, ? - fl. 1460 associated name.
Added entry--name
Doll, John, ? - fl. 1460 associated name.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Leo, 1002 - 1054 IX, Pope attributed name.
Added entry--place
England Gloucestershire.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49987