Shelfmark
MS 79
Author
Pierre, de Baume
Title
P. de Palma, Moralitates super Proverbia Salomonis. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Petrus de Palma, etc.
Varying form of title
Moralitates super proverbia Salomonis
Varying form of title
Postilla fratris petri de palma
Publication, distribution, etc.
France, between ca. 1375 and ca. 1425.
Physical description
1 volume (vi, 122, ii leaves) : parchment ; 21 x 14 cm.
Note
The 'Moralitates super prouerbia salomonis' (ff. 1-86) of Pierre de Baume (d. 1345), who names himself in the text on f. 26, "Ego frater Petrus de Palma"; followed by a table, 'Canon ad vsum huius repertorii in Patrum palmensem ...(f. 122) Exerpsit Gulielmus hormanus. Scripst Darellus' (ff. 87-122), added in England in the first half of the 16th century.
Note
Further late 15th/early 16th century additions on flyleaves: a table of the 'Capitulorum loca in parabolis Solomonis' with leaf numbers (f. iv); 'Ex Rodulpho Flauiacensi in leuiticum', an extract from the preface of Radulphus Flaviacensis, In Leviticum (f. v recto + verso); 'Beda quomodo in manibus computari debet ...' (ff. v verso-vi verso).
Note
The main text has added title 'Postilla fratris petri de palma' in a late 15th century hand (f. 1). On Pierre de Baume, see Histoire littéraire de la France 36, pp. 180-90 and B. Smalley, English friars and antiquity (1960), pp. 249-51.
Note
On the table (ff. 87-122) and its scribe, see N. R. Ker in The Library, 5th ser., v. 17 (1962), p. 83.
Note
Running title across each double opening: Mor' 1a super prouer'; f. 86v is blank.
Note
Leaves iii-vi are the pastedown and flyleaves from the medieval binding.
Note
The main text (ff. 1-86) has a medieval foliation in the top right corner of each recto; after the book was cropped by a binder this foliation was repeated lower down in a probably early 16th century hand.
Note
Written space: 160 x 102 mm.
Note
The main text is in 46 long lines, numbered by fives in red in the outer margin.
Note
Collation: 1-7¹² 8² (ff. 85, 86) 9-10¹⁰ 11-12⁸.
Note
The script of the main text is essentially textura, but with linked minims and minims linked to a following letter, for example i to l.
Note
2-line initials in blue with red ornament or red with dark blue ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: tria milia.
Note
In an Eton binding ca. 1715; the chain mark of an older binding shows on f. iii.
Note
The main text probably written in France and the table added for William Horman in the first half of the 16th century.
Note
Inscribed on f. iii verso 'Donum Guilielmi Hormani quondam socii huius contubernii', repeated in a different hand on f. iv verso.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.6.
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. 695-6
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 79
Citation/references note
Stegmüller, no. 6735
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 79
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 2109
Provenance
Given to Eton by William Horman.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Bible. Proverbs Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Horman, William, ? - -1535 compiler, former owner.
Added entry--name
Darellus scribe.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50007