Shelfmark
MS 76 (1)
Author
Jerome, ? - -419 or 420 Saint
Uniform title
[Commentarii in Danielem]
Title
Jeronimus in Danielem. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: St. Hieronymus in Danielem
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1150 and ca. 1200.
Physical description
1 volume (f. 1-40) : parchment ; 23.5 x 16 cm.
Note
The manuscript described here was previously part of a volume containing also the Numerale and Similitudines of William de Monte [William de Montibus], but is now bound as ff. 1-40 of a composite volume of ff. ii, 132, iv leaves with a late 13th century copy of Berengaudus, In Apocalypsin, here catalogued separately as Eton MS 76 (2). A table of chapters of the Numerale is on ff. 39v-40v of this manuscript, and a long piece of the text ('Vnus est deus et hoc natura docet ... comprehendi potest') is on a scrap of parchment tied to f. 40v; the copy of William de Monte is now bound separately as Eton MS 82.
Note
Ker's description as cited in the references below treats this manuscript as forming a single unit with MS 82; M. R. James describes the composite volume.
Note
Written space: 180 x 110 mm.
Note
33 long lines.
Note
Collation: 1-5⁸. The copy of William de Monte referenced above continues the quire numbering 6-11.
Note
The main text is written in a good small 12th-century hand; the table of chapters on ff. 39v-40v is in the same hand as the Similitudines of William de Monte in MS 82.
Note
Initials: in blue and metallic red on f. 1, elsewhere in metallic red and once (f. 15) in blue.
Note
Secundo folio: autem extremam.
Note
Rebound at Eton in the 18th century by Slatter but listed in the college accounts for 1608-9 as one of 14 specified manuscripts bound by Williamson.
Note
Reader's note on f. 39v and marginalia in the hand of Robert Elyot (d. 1499), vice provost of Eton, dated 7 September 1497.
Note
At Eton before 1500.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.3.
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: Berengaudus, In Apocalypsin, written in England in the late 15th century, MS 76 (2) q.v.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 691-2
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 76
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 76, ff. 1-40
Provenance
Presumably given to Eton by Robert Elyot, vice provost, before 1500.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter; see above for evidence of previous Williamson binding.
Subject
Bible. Daniel Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 former owner.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50003