Shelfmark
MS 101 (1)
Author
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Uniform title
[In Evangelium Iohannis tractatus]
Title
Augustinus, In Johannem. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: SS. Gregorii et Augustini quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1350 and ca. 1400.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. i, 1-182) : parchment, ill. (initials) ; 38 x 26 cm.
Note
St Augustine, In Ioannis Evangelium tractatus XXIV, forming ff. i, 1-182 in a composite volume of ff. i, 327, i.
Note
Begins: "Aurelii augustini doctoris yponiensis episcopi. omelie in euangelium domini ihesu secundum Iohannem quas ipse colloquendo prius ad populum habuit ..."
Note
Letter marks in the margins.
Note
Folio 181v is blank; f. 182 is blank on both sides and has pricking, but no ruling, and the verso was previously pasted to a former binding.
Note
Written space: 285 x 185 mm.
Note
Two columns of 49 lines.
Note
Collation: 1-22⁸ 23⁴ 24² (ff. 181-2).
Note
The initial on f. 1 is the letter I with a scaly blue and pink dragon on a gold ground, his tail turning into a continuous blue, pink and gold border. Other initials are 4-line, blue with red ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: dum ad dominum.
Note
Rebound at Eton in the early 17th century with another manuscript, here catalogued separately as MS 101 (2).
Note
The marks of the pins of two strap-and-pin fastenings of a former binding and of its thongs places as four sideways Vs show on f. 182v.
Note
Written in England.
Note
Inscribed on f. 182: "Istum librum ego `M. Ric' Hopton´ emi ab executore petri Bylton pro lvi s' viii d' anno domoni mºccccº lv".
Note
Inscribed on f. i in the same hand as similar inscriptions in MSS 22 and 97: "Liber Augustini super Iohannem et incipit in 2º fo dum ad dominum".
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.1.10.
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: Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae in Evangelia, etc., written in England in the late 13th century and forming ff. 183-327 of the volume as bound.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 713-4
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 101
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 17
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 101, ff. i, 1-182
Provenance
Purchased by Richard Hopton from the executors of Peter Bylton and given to Eton by Hopton in or before 1492-3. Richard Hopton gave books to the college in or before 1492-3 when the audit roll, EA 24, contains a payment 'pro scriptura supra libros quos doctor Hopton dedit collegio'.
Binding
Early 17th century English calf binding by Vincent Williamson.
Subject
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo In Evangelium Iohannis tractatus
Subject
Bible. John Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Hopton, Richard, ? - fl. ca. 1492 former owner.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50025