Shelfmark
MS 83A
Author
Uniform title
[De corpore et sanguine Domini]
Title
Paschasius Radbertus ; etc. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
Germany?, between ca. 1100 and ca 1125.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 1-83) : parchment ; 23.5 x 15.3 cm.
Note
Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine Domini (ff. 2v-43v) followed by twenty-three separate chapters on the Eucharist and on miracles (ff. 43v-75), and sixty-three brief extracts from canons of councils, 'canones apostolorum', 'sinodus ybernensis', Augustine, Jerome, and decrees of early popes (ff. 75-83), forming the first part of a composite volume of ff. iii, 199, ii with Eton MS 83B, q.v.
Note
The recto of f. 1 is left blank, and ff. 1v-2r contain a table of the first two texts.
Note
The contents of ff. 1-75 of this manuscript appear in the same order in Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 859, ff. 227-259v, which is probably derived directly or indirectly from the Eton manuscript.
Note
The component pieces in the chapters on the Eucharist and miracles and the miscellaneous extracts are described in Ker, as cited below.
Note
Leaves ii, iii of the volume as bound are a folded leaf from book 3 of the Institutes of Justinian in a late 13th-century English hand, used in binding.
Note
Poor, flecked parchment with tears and irregularities.
Note
Written space: ca. 195 x 115 mm.
Note
Two columns of 26 lines.
Note
Ruling with a hard point.
Note
Collation: 1 two 2-10⁸ 11⁸ + 1 leaf after 8; 3 and 6 in quires 3 and 8, and 2 and 7 in quire 7 are half sheets.
Note
Quires 2-10 numbered at the end I-VIIII.
Note
Large sloping ugly writing, probably one hand throughout.
Note
The mark of abbreviation for -ur is often used to denote omission of 'r'.
Note
Elaborately shaped initials in unfilled outline in the ink of the text on a red ground.
Note
Capital letters in the ink of the text filled with red.
Note
Secundo folio: dicitur.
Note
Bound with MS 83B in or after the 13th century, and rebound at Eton by Slatter around 1715; the mark of a chain attached to an earlier binding shows on f. iii near the foot of the fore-edge.
Note
Probably written in Germany; writing on f. 1v is in a late 15th/early 16th-century English hand.
Note
Both MS 83A and MS 83B were probably at Eton by the 16th century, if 'Aeton Colledge' on f. iv verso may be taken to apply to both.
Note
MS 83A was among the books found in 'Mr Belfeldes Chambre after his death' in 1558; see R. Birley, 'The history of Eton College Library', The Library, 5th ser., v. 11 (1956), p. 241.
Note
Robert Elyot seems to have used MS 83B, q.v.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.10.
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: Petrus Cantor, Distinctiones Abel, written in England in the early 13th century, MS 83B, q.v., forming ff. 84-197v of the volume as bound.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 698-700
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 83
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 83A
Provenance
Probably at Eton by the 16th century, and used by John Belfyld, vice provost, at the time of his death in 1558.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Lord's Supper Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 associated name.
Added entry--name
Belfyld, John, ? - 1558 associated name.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
Germany.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50011