Shelfmark
MS 105
Author
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Title
Augustinus, Epistolae, etc. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustini Epistolae, etc.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1200 and ca. 1225.
Physical description
1 volume (iii, 178, ii leaves) : parchment, initials ; 37.6 x 26.5 cm.
Note
Collection of 139 letters of St Augustine (ff. 1-172), preceded by a table of contents (ff. iv verso-v verso) and followed by two sermons, "de uita et moribus clericorum" (ff. 172-4) and "excusatorius pro clericis" (ff. 174-6) (sermons no. 355 and 356 in G. Lambot's edition in Stromata patristica et medievalia, 1 (1950), pp. 124-131); f. 176v is blank.
Note
Closely related to the copies of the Epistolae in the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle and at Merton College, Oxford, MS 3 which have the same collection of 139 letters in the same order, followed by the same two sermons (but in reverse order); also to Aberdeen University, MS 6, which breaks off in letter 137.
Note
Red ink notice after letter 7 in the table of contents "Epistole augustini ad Ieronimum. et Ieronimi ad Augustinum in epistolari Ieronimi requirantur", as found also in the Carlisle, Merton and Aberdeen MSS.
Note
In both table and text two letters seem to have been numbered 126; to correct the error, the numbers from the second 126 were raised by one, pershaps at the same time (15th century) as the leaf references were added to the table.
Note
See Ker as cited in the references below for comparison with the commoner 143- or 144-letter collections of Augustine's Epistolae, and for a table showing the numbers of the letters in the Eton manuscript compared with pre-Maurist printed editions and Patrologia Latina/Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.
Note
Later annotations include a numbering of the letters based on the collection of 143 letters and the division of longer letters by numbers in the margins, possibly 15th century.
Note
15th-century drawings and notes, for example a head and "Correctio" on f. 7, the upper part of a cowled figure at a desk with a scroll "Nota questionem et responsum" on f. 65.
Note
Foliated i-v, 1-176; f. iii was pasted to a former binding.
Note
Medieval foliation, 1-176.
Note
Written space: 255 x 180 mm.
Note
Two columns of 40 lines (as in the Carlisle manuscript).
Note
First line of writing above the top ruled line.
Note
Pricks in both margins to guide ruling.
Note
Collation of ff. ib, v, 1-176: 1 2-23⁸.
Note
Quires 2-22 numbered at the end I-XXI.
Note
No flex punctuation; where the Carlisle manuscript has the flex, the Eton one has eiher the punctus elevatus or a point.
Note
8-line initial on f. 1, blue with handsome ornament in red and blue externally and red and green internally; other initials 4-line, blue with red ornament, red with blue ornament, or green with red ornament, roughish work after quire 2.
Note
In the table of contents a line of yellow wash covers the capital letter beginning each entry.
Note
Secundo folio (f. 2): de me opinionem.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1715; marks of the chain attachment and metal piece for a central strap from an older binding visible on f. iii.
Note
Written in England.
Note
Inscription on f. iii verso: "Liber magistri Thome Mareys Rectoris de Sturmowth in Comitatu Kancie emptus de executoribus M' Thome Checheley Archidiaconi Cantuariensis anno domini 1468º. vltimo die mensis Aprilis".
Note
Inscription on f. iii verso: "Liber magistri Iohannis Mocer vicarii de tenterden. Emptus cantuarie ab executoribus magistri Thome maris et a magistro Symone hogges officiali pro xxxiii s' iiii d'".
Note
In Mocer's will, 1489, this manuscript, MS 106, "omelias Originis super Matheum" and "Rabanum de Ludowicum" (Rabanus on Maccabees, with his preface to Louis I?) were bequeathed to Eton. The Origen and Rabanus are now missing.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.2.4.
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. 717-719
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 105
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 16
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 105
Provenance
Belonged in the second half of the 15th century to three Kentish churchmen in succession, Thomas Chichele, Thomas Mareys, and John Mocer; see notes above.
Provenance
Bequeathed to Eton by John Mocer in 1489.
Provenance
Some of the 15th century notes appear to be by Robert Elyot (d. 1499), vice provost of Eton, one of whose typical heads is on f. 109.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo Correspondence
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 annotator.
Added entry--name
Mocer, John, ? - 1489 former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50030