Shelfmark
MS 103
Title
Pseudo-N. de Gorran, In Epistolas Pauli. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Nic. Gorranus super Epistolas
Publication, distribution, etc.
England?, between ca. 1400 and ca. 1450.
Physical description
1 volume (iii, 150, iii leaves) : parchment, ill. (initials) ; 36.8 x 26.7 cm.
Note
Five pieces on the Epistles of Paul, now attributed to Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V); cf. Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, nos. 6891-5.
Note
Not ascribed here, but considered. as commonly, to be by Nicolas de Gorran in the Eton and St Albans inventories; see below.
Note
See Ker as cited in the references below for the component pieces.
Note
At ch. 4 of the second piece (f. 46v) the scribe left space for an initial like those beginning the five pieces (ff. 1, 31, 51, 63 and 67).
Note
Thick parchment.
Note
Written space: 250 x 160 mm.
Note
Two columns of 45 lines.
Note
Collation: 1-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-8⁸ 9⁶ 10⁸ 11⁶ 12-16⁸ 17⁶ 18-19⁸ 20⁸ wants 7,8, blank.
Note
Quires signed a-v.
Note
The text of the Epistles is in larger and the commentary in smaller textura, but "g" is flat-topped and "s" may be round or kidney-shaped, probably by a foreign scribe working for Whethamstede.
Note
Initial on f. 1 in gold and blue, with ornament in red and blue forming a border, at each corner a roundel, two of them containing a lamb and flag, and two sn eagle in white with gold halos on blue grounds; initials on ff. 1 and 68 in blue and red with ornament of both colours; other initials in blue with red ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: edificacionem.
Note
In contemporary binding; see binding note below.
Note
Probably written in England, probably by a foreign scribe working for John Whethamstede.
Note
Ex-libris of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans on f. 150v: "Hunc librum ad usum Conuentus Mansterii sancti Albani assignauit venerabilis pater dompnus Iohannes Whethamstede olim Abbas Monasterii antedicti. vinculoque anathematis innodauit illos omnes qui aut titulum illius delere curauerint. aut ad usus applicare presumpserint alienos."
Note
In spite of the anathema, alienated and at Eton by 1465; see provenance notes below.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.2.2.
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. 715-6
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 103
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 64
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS `03
Provenance
Formerly at the Benedictine abbey of St Albans: Number (8) in the list of books made for Whethamstede (abbot of St Albans 1420-1440, 1452-1465) printed in Annales J. Amundesham (R.S.), ii. 268: "Item in factura eiusdem super quasdem Epistolas Pauli 1s" (following two other books by Gorran).
Provenance
Listed as item xv in the Eton inventory of 1465: "Item Goram vppon dyuers epistleles ii fo edificiacionem". See M. R. James in Etoniana, ser. 1, no. 28 (1921), p. 444.
Provenance
Note by Robert Elyot (d. 1499), vice provost of Eton, on f. 32.
Binding
Contemporary wooden boards, formerly covered with pink leather; eight bands; two clasps missing; formerly covered with a white chemise, of which a small fragment remained until 1964 when the boards were re-covered, preserving a piece of the pink leather now pasted inside the front cover.
Subject
Nicolas, 1232 - ca. 1295 de Gorran Manuscripts.
Subject
Bible. Epistles of Paul Commentaries Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 associated name.
Added entry--name
Whethamstede, John, ? - d. 1465 associated name.
Added entry--name
Nicolas, 1232 - ca. 1295 de Gorran attributed name.
Added entry--name
Innocent, ca. 1224 - 1276 V, Pope
Added entry--name
St. Albans Abbey former owner.
Added entry--place
England St. Albans.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50028