Shelfmark
MS 107
Author
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Uniform title
[De civitate Dei]
Title
Augustinus, De civitate Dei. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustinus de civitate Dei
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1200 and ca. 1225.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 230 leaves) : parchment, ill. (initials) ; 40 x 26.5 cm.
Note
St Augustine's De civitate Dei preceded by tables of chapters of books 11-22 ending with book 22 chapter 29, the chapter numbers added later.
Note
In books 1-10 the paragraphing does not agree with the chapter numbers added in the margins in the ?14th century: for example book 1 is in 27 chapters but is marked for 39 chapters.
Note
Books 11-22 have an inconspicuous early (but not original) chapter numbering in roman numerals and a later one in the margins in large arabic numerals, which does not always agree with the earlier numbering.
Note
Folio i is a bifolium of a mid 15th-century theological manuscript written in 2 columns of ca. 43 lines in frame ruling, in an English secretary hand (cf. also ECL MSS 32 and 34); one leaf is numberd 43.
Note
Folios 229v-230v were left blank; 230v is pasted down.
Note
Written space: 280 x 180 mm.
Note
Two columns of 46 lines.
Note
Pricks in both margins to guide ruling.
Note
Collation: 1-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13-20¹⁰ 21-22¹² 23⁴ (4 = f. 230, pasted down).
Note
Quires 1-5 are numbered at the end.
Note
A new hand begins at f. 46v and the ruling changes at the next new quire (f. 51) from three vertical lines between the columns to two vertical lines between the columns.
Note
9-line inhabited initial in red on gold and pink on f. 6: Augustine vested as a bishop, writing at a desk.
Note
Other decorative initials in red and/or blue, some with ornament of one or both colours; initial of book 7 in red on a ground of decorated brown and blue; initials of books 19-22 are unfinished.
Note
Secundo folio: naturali pondere.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1520.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.2.6.
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. 720-1
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 107
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 18
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 107
Provenance
At Eton by 1520 on the evidence of the binding.
Binding
16th century English calf binding by Lisley; blind stamped boards with four-fold diagonal lines intersecting; chain-mark at lower fore-edge of front board.
Subject
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Subject
Apologetics Manuscripts.
Subject
Kingdom of God Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50033