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Shelfmark

MS 81

Author

Uniform title

[Regula pastoralis]

Title

Gregorius, Liber pastoralis ; etc. manuscript

Varying form of title

Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Anselmi Dialogus, etc.

Publication, distribution, etc.

England, between ca. 1125 and ca. 1175.

Physical description

1 volume (iii, 94, iii leaves) : parchment, ill. (initials) ; 21 x 14 cm.

Note

The 'Liber regule pastoralis Gregorii pape' is on ff. 37-94. It is preceded by a dialogue of St Anselm, Cur Deus homo (ff. 1-28), and miscellaneous extracts followed by a hymn in different hand (ff. 28-36v).

Note

The text on f. 10v of St Anselm is spaced to admit a long scholium on 'natura'.

Note

The miscellaneous extracts include Similitudines Anselmi, nos. 41-42. See Ker as cited in the references below for additional details.

Note

The hymn (ff. 33-36v), in fourteen 6- or 8-line stanzas, begins '[T]rina uirtus suffragetur' (misread as 'Prima ..' by M. R. James), widely spaced in continuous writing, 10 lines to the page.

Note

The Liber pastoralis has no division into books, and only the first 48 chapters are numbered. It includes preliminaries not found in the printed editions. According to the 'prologus' (f. 38v), also found in a 10th century manuscript at St John's College, Oxford, MS 28 (f. 6v), Gregory began the work 'in gallia longounensis' (St John's has 'lugdunensis' altered to 'lugdunensi') and completed it 'in gallia belgica ... in ciuitate que dicitur brigalis', and both MSS have a gap between the words 'quia' and 'imperatoris'.

Note

On f. 94 is 'Post hunc librum Minores collationes' in a 13th-century hand; f. 94v is blank.

Note

Written space: 165 x 100 mm.

Note

37 long lines.

Note

Collation: 1-3⁸ 4⁶ (ff. 31-36) 5-12⁸ 13 two.

Note

Fairly well written; the 'semi-colon' used as a mark of punctuation at the end of a sentence.

Note

Initials: f. 1 has a gold initial on a ground of brown and blue, the blue decorated in colours; f. 39 has a handsome P in blue and red on a ground of light brown and gold, the gold decorated with an interlace of branches, occupying the entire space that had probably been set aside for the initial and 22 absent letters 'P[astoralis cure pondere]' in fancy script; other initials in red, blue, green or brown.

Note

Secundo folio: et magnitudini.

Note

Rebound at Eton ca. 1715.

Note

Written in England, according to M. R. James possibly at St Albans.

Note

On the evidence of an inscription on f. 27v in the hand of Robert Elyot dated 1 December 1485, at Eton by 1500.

Note

Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.8.

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. 697-698

Citation/references note

James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 81

Cite as

Eton College Library, MS 81

Provenance

Presumably given to Eton by Robert Elyot (d. 1499), vice provost; see above.

Binding

18th century English calf binding by Slatter.

Subject

Subject

Theology Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

Anselm,, 1033 - 1109 Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury

Added entry--place

England.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50009
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