Shelfmark
MS 106
Author
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Title
Augustinus, De verbis Domini et Apostoli; etc. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustini sermones, etc.
Publication, distribution, etc.
France?, between ca. 1100 and ca. 1150.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 139 leaves) : parchment, ill. (initials) ; 39 x 29 cm.
Note
The content description follows the manuscript's foliation, as given below.
Note
St Augustine's Sermones de uerbis domini et apostoli, comprising the 98 sermons found in Patrologia Latina v. 39 in another order (ff. 1-125), corresponding to nos. 1-37, 98, 38-97 in the list by P. Verbraken, 'La collection de sermons de Saint Augustin "De verbis domini et apostoli", Revue Bénédictine 77 (1967) 27-46, where this copy is recorded as being of "Type B 1". At the end is the couplet "En labor est finis ..." printed in M. R. James (who incorrectly transcribes the first word as "Est").
Note
Followed by S. Augustini Vita (ff. 125v-130).
Note
A table of the sermons (ff. 131-135v) was added in the 15th century, referring to the sermon numbers in the upper margin and to the letter references of the same date which subdivide each sermon. The 38th sermon is listed twice, as no. XXXVIII and again as no. XCIII.
Note
Folios ii verso and iii recto contain the Regula of St Augustine; the recto of f. ii was left blank and contains a couplet beginning "Unde supperbimus ..." in a late 12th century hand, transcribed by M. R. James.
Note
Folios iv-v verso are an addition in a hand of the second half of the 14th century, perhaps leaves out of another book, containing St Jerome, Sermo de omnipotentia in a hand.
Note
The former pastedowns prior to the modern rebacking and ff. i, 136 are leaves from letter E of the Concordantiae maiores (Stiegmüller, no. 3605), written in England in the second half of the 14th century. 24 more or less complete leaves and 4 strips survive in this form as used by Williamson in 1600-1601 and other years in binding 9 manuscripts and 2 printed books at Eton. These may correspond to the 'concordaunce of ii partes' listed in the Eton inventory of 1465. In this volume, f. i contains "Effeminatus-Egestas", f. 136 contains "Eleuans-Emaus", the front pastedown contains "Eruditor-Eramentum" (exposed side) and the back pastedown contains "Emanuel-Emortuus" (exposed side). See Ker, p. 635 and Etoniana, ser. 1, no. 28 (1921), p. 443.
Note
The lower part of f. 64 was left blank before the change of hand.
Note
On f. 115v, 18½ lines of text were crossed through because the ink took badly and recopied; f. 117v was left partly blank by the scribe mistrusting his parchment.
Note
Written space: ca. 310 x 236 mm.
Note
Written in two columns of 47 lines.
Note
Ruling with a hard point.
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Foliation: i-v, 1-136.
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Collation: 1² (ff. ii, iii) 2 two (ff. iv, v) 3-16⁸ 17⁶ +1 leaf after 2 (f. 115) 18⁸ 19 three (ff. 128-130) 20⁶ wants 6, blank.
Note
Quires 3-19 numbered I-XVII at the end (quires 3-9) or at the beginning (quires 11-19).
Note
Probably three hands, changing at ff. 57 (10¹) and 65 (11¹) where there is an inexact join, suggesting simultaneous writing by two scribes.
Note
Initials in outline edged with red and green on coloured grounds decorated with green and white circling branches of ff. 1v and 125v, the former with a dragon head at each end of the C; other three-line initials in red with ornament of the same colour.
Note
Secundo folio: esse maliuolos (f. iii); tis sue (f. 2).
Note
Rebound at Eton in the early 17th century.
Note
Probably written in France, or possibly Italy (cf. Verbraken).
Note
The addition of St Jerome and the table are later and English, as are marginalia to the main text.
Note
Two-line erasure and "xxxviius" on f. 130v, probably 14th century.
Note
Table of contents like those in William Horman's books, headed "Contenta", and inscription of gift (to Eton) "Donum M' Ioannis Moyer" on f. iii verso, late 15th/early 16th century.
Note
One of four books bequeathed to Eton by John Mocer9.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.2.5.
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. 719-20
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 106
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 19
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 106
Provenance
Bequeathed to Eton by John Mocer (or Mocer, or Mower) in 1489.
Binding
Early 17th century English calf binding by Williamson; four paper leaves were added at the front and at the back when the volume was rebacked in the 1970s.
Subject
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo Sermones de verbi Domini et apostoli
Subject
Jerome, ? - -419 or 420 Saint Sermo de omnipotentia
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Subject
Sermons Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Mocer, John, ? - 1489 former owner.
Added entry--name
Horman, William, ? - -1535 associated name.
Added entry--place
France.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50031