Shelfmark
MS 83B
Author
Title
P. Cantor, Distinctiones Abel. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Paschasius Radbertus, etc.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1200 and ca. 1300.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 84-199) : parchment ; 23.5 x 15.3 cm.
Note
Petrus Cantor, Distinctones Abel (ff. 84-197v), with added pieces in the main hand on ff. 197v-198 including a note 'quod parisiensis ecclesia hanc habet consuetudinem quod in uigilia natalis domini maiores implent officium puerorum in omnibus horis ad significandum curam ioseph quam habebat in partu uirginis' and further additions on ff. 198-199, forming the second part of a composite volume of ff. iii, 199, ii with Eton MS 83A, q.v.
Note
Additional notes in a 13th-century hand on Palma and Tabernaculum on ff. 198-199.
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
Written space: ca. 170 x 105 mm.
Note
40 long lines.
Note
The first line of writing above the top ruled line.
Note
Pricks in both margins of quire 1.
Note
Collation: 1-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-14⁸ 15⁶.
Note
The hand changes at f. 132 (quire 7).
Note
Blue A with red ornament on f. 84; no other coloured initial.
Note
Secundo folio: Aduersa.
Note
Bound with MS 83A 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
Written in England.
Note
Marginalia to the main text (ff. 187v-188) are in a 13th-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 is listed 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
Addition on f. 197v in a 15th-century hand (probably Robert Elyot's) is a quotation from Holcot on Wisdom; f. 199v is blank.
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.
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 83B
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce unknown (bitonal scans)
Provenance
Probably at Eton by the 16th century, and if already bound with MS 83B, may have been used by John Belfyld, vice provost, at the time of his death in 1558.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Bible. Dictionaries Manuscripts.
Subject
Theology Dictionaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 annotator.
Added entry--name
Belfyld, John, ? - 1558 associated name.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50012