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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.

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See Ker as cited in the references below for the component pieces.

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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).

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Thick parchment.

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Written space: 250 x 160 mm.

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Two columns of 45 lines.

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Collation: 1-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-8⁸ 9⁶ 10⁸ 11⁶ 12-16⁸ 17⁶ 18-19⁸ 20⁸ wants 7,8, blank.

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Quires signed a-v.

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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.

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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.

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Secundo folio: edificacionem.

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In contemporary binding; see binding note below.

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Probably written in England, probably by a foreign scribe working for John Whethamstede.

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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

Subject

Bible. Epistles of Paul Commentaries Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 associated name.

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Added entry--name

Nicolas, 1232 - ca. 1295 de Gorran attributed name.

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Added entry--name

St. Albans Abbey former owner.

Added entry--place

England St. Albans.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50028
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