Shelfmark
MS 45
Author
Petrus Comestor
Uniform title
[Historia scholastica]
Title
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica ; Allegoriae in Bibliam. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Petri Comestori Historia scholastica
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1200 and ca. 1250.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 246, iii leaves) : parchment ; 29.5 x 20 cm.
Note
The Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor (ff. 1-193), followed by his 13 books of Allegoriae in Sacram Scripturam (ff. 193v-244v).
Note
The inset pieces in Historia scholastica are usually headed "Magister" or "Incidentia"; there is a contemporary chapter numbering in red and blue, and a later one in brown ink.
Note
In the Allegoriae, the arrangement of the New Testament (books 11-13) differs from the edition printed in Patrologia Latina (v. 175, pp. 634-828); see also Eton MS 4.
Note
The beginning of an index to the Historia scholastica, with references to the brown ink chapter numbers was added to f. 244v-245 in the 14th century, starting with Aaron and ending abruptly at Amon.
Note
Two 15th-century additions of four and two lines respectively on f. 244v ("Petrus eram ...") and f. 247v ("Ascalonica necat ...", with "herodes" written above the first word); ff. 245v-246v are blank.
Note
Leaf 247 is a medieval parchment leaf.
Note
Written space: 175 x 115 mm.
Note
Two columns of 43 lines.
Note
First line of writing above the top ruled line.
Note
Collation: 1-18¹² 19¹⁰ 20¹² 21¹² wants 8-11, blank, after 245.
Note
Quires numbered at the end.
Note
The first sheet (ff. 1rv and 12rv) is written in a better hand than the rest, and uses crossed 'x'.
Note
The words "Imperatorie" and "In principio" were on pieces of parchment, now missing, pasted into spaces left for them on f. 1.
Note
Other initials in red and blue with ornament of both colours, or red or blue with ornament of the other colour.
Note
Secundo folio: primo enim.
Note
Rebound in the 19th century.
Note
The pressmark 'H. xvii' at the foot of f. 1 shows ownership by an institution in the late Middle Ages; see provenance note below.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.4.9.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Note
Probably both this and Eton MS 125 are covered by CMA 41 (Catalogus manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, ed. E. Bernard, Oxford, 1697).
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 683
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 45
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 45
Provenance
A note by M. R. James in the ECL interleaved annotated copy of his descriptive catalogue (MS 932) describes the hand of the late medieval institutional pressmark noted above as "a tall narrow hand, like those of St Mary's, York", but N. R. Ker notes that it is not in the expected form beginning 'In ...', and suggests that the scribbled word 'Chicsan' on f. 247v in a 15th century hand may be poor evidence that the institution was the Gilbertine priory of Chicksands in Bedfordshire.
Binding
19th century English binding.
Subject
Bible. Allegorical intepretations Manuscripts.
Subject
Bible. Latin Paraphrases Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Petrus Comestor Allegoriae in Sacram Scripturam.
Added entry--name
Chicksands Priory associated name.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49995