Shelfmark
MS 43
Title
Matthaeus glosatus. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Glossa in Mattheum
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1175 and ca. 1225.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 86, iii leaves) : parchment ; 26.2 x 18.8 cm.
Note
A central column of text widely spaced for interlinear glosses and flanked by discontinuous apparatus in a much smaller hand.
Note
The first three paragraphs of apparatus are "Matheus cum primo ... sacramentum" (prologue to Matthew, Stegmüller, no. 589), "Hec causa matheum scribere ... dauid natum", "Modus tractandi talis est, Primus genealogiam ... in hoc euangelio tractat"; the apparatus ends "Sic ueniet quemadmodum uidistis eum euntem in celum" (f. 84v).
Note
The gloss is followed by a list of St Augustine's works based on his Retractationes, in a late 12th/early 13th century hand (ff. 84v-85); a recipe for blue in an early 13th century hand (f. 86).
Note
Leaves iii and iv are medieval parchment end-leaves from an older binding; f. iii has the Sibyilline acrostic on the last judgment written in a 13th century hand.
Note
Written space ca. 170 mm high.
Note
Ruling for 53 lines of apparatus, but on no page are all the lines written in.
Note
Pricks in both margins to guide ruling which provides for both text and apparatus on a single grid.
Note
Writing below the top ruled line, except for the apparatus in quire 1.
Note
Collation: 1-10⁸ 11⁸ wants 6,7, blank.
Note
Quires numbered at the end, I-XI.
Note
Initials in red and blue with ornament of both colours on a ground of yellow-brown wash; in blue or red with ornament of the other colour; or in blue or red.
Note
Secundo folio: culus.
Note
Rebound at Eton in the 17th century; see binding notes below.
Note
13th-century ex-libris inscription of the Premonstratensian abbey of Otham [Hottheham] near Hailsham in Sussex, prior to its removal to Bayham, Sussex in the 13th century, on the recto of f. iii, which was pasted to an earlier binding: "Hic liber est Canon[icorum] de Otteham'.
Note
At Eton by ca. 1600 on the evidence of the binding.
Note
Binding uses strips of parchment from the same book used for the flyleaves of Eton MS 42; flyleaf at end bears fragment of inscription of gift from William Horman, cf. Eton MS 48.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.4.7.
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. 682
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 43
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 43
Provenance
Previously at the Premonstratensian abbey of Otham; see above.
Binding
17th century English calf binding by Williamson; plain fillet border; strips of parchment from earlier book used in binding (see above); no chainmark; strap and pin of an older binding have left marks on the leaves at beginning and end.
Subject
Bible. Matthew Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Horman, William, ? - -1535 associated name.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Otham Abbey former owner.
Added entry--name
Premonstratensians former owner.
Added entry--title
Bible. Matthew.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49993