Shelfmark
MS 48 (3)
Title
Notulae in Bibliam. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustini quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1175 and ca. 1200.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 107-240 [i.e. 134 leaves]) : parchment (initials) ; 28 x 19.5 mm.
Note
Leaves 107-240 in a composite volume of ff. iv, 240, ii, containing notes on Genesis, the Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, Jerome's prologue to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Judges and Kings in thirteen parts.
Note
The component parts are identified in Ker, as cited in the references below.
Note
The notes on the four gospels have longish introductions (ff. 126rv, 155rv, 186-7v, 197v).
Note
In the notes on Mark, there is a blank space on f. 135v after which the gloss begins again with the first words of Jerome's prologue: two notes beginning "Expliciunt..." are on ff. 139 and 142. The blank space on f. 135v contains an addition in a contemporary hand, "Statuit terminos moyses iuxta montem domini ...".
Note
In the notes on Luke a fresh beginning follows a blank space on f. 156 and f. 159v was left blank because the parchment was too poor to write on.
Note
The final part, on Kings (beginning f. 233v) continues the history of the Jews to the time of Christ, ending "Secundus patruus qui iacobum interfecit"; f. 240v is blank.
Note
The margins of the first part (f. 107, "Notule super Genesin") contain sigla, M C, M G, M e R, M O , M.P.e, M.P.M. On their significance, see B. Smalley in Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 7 (1935), pp. 256-9.
Note
Written space: 212 x 145 mm.
Note
Two columns of 45-50 lines.
Note
Collation: 1⁸ 2⁸ wants 7,8, probably blank after f. 120 3-17⁸.
Note
Probably all in one hand; Ker suggests the first part was written after the other twelve.
Note
Initials in red or blue with ornament of the other colour: the terminals are sometimes small human or animal heads (ff. 155, 221) and the I on f. 197v is a delicate blue and red dragon.
Note
Secundo folio (f. 108): fusione.
Note
Bound with ff. 1-96 of the composite volume in the early 17th century and with ff. 97-106 then or earlier (but if so, bound first with it on the basis of rust marks from a former binding on f. 106v); wormholes on f. 107 and later leaves decrease in size and number.
Note
Two late 13th/early 14th century inscriptions in red on f. 107: at head, "Liber beate marie de Beluero"; at foot, "Hunc librum dedit frater Willelmus de Beluero prior eiusdem ecclesie deo et beate Marie de Beluero quem qui alienauerit uel fraudam aliquam inde fecerit indignacionem dei incurrat. Anima dicti Willelmi et anime omnium fidelium deunctorum requiescant in pace amen".
Note
Another 14th-century ex-libris on f. 145v, unread.
Note
At Eton by 1601 on the evidence of the binding.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.4.12.
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: Augustinus, a miscellany of works by or attribued to Augustine written in England in first half of the 12th century, MS 32 (1), and with: Prosper of Aquitaine, Augustini de uera innocentia liber, written in England in the late 12th/early 13th century, MS 32 (2), qq.v.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 689-90
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 48
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 48, ff. 107-240
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SN 7717.02
Provenance
Inscription of ownership by the cell of St. Albans at Belvoir, Lincolnshire (see note above).
Binding
Early 17th century English calf binding by Williamson.
Subject
Bible. Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Belvoir Priory former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50000