Shelfmark
MS 108A
Author
Augustine, 354 - 430 Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Uniform title
[De Trinitate]
Title
Augustinus, De Trinitate. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustini et Nic. de Lyra quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
France?, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1325.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 1-111) : parchment, initials ; 33.8 x 22.5 cm.
Note
St Augustine's De Trinitate (ff. 1-110v) followed by the beginning of an alphabetical subject index in a different hand, forming the first part of a composite volume of ff. i, 188, i with Eton MS 108B, Tabula in N. de Lyra, etc.
Note
The introductory letter to Aurelius is preceded by a damaged copy of the prayer printed by G. Morin in Revue Bénédictine 21, pp. 129-132, and followed by lists of chapters; see Ker as cited below for additional references.
Note
The alphabetical index ("Incipit tabula super libros beati aug' de trinitate ..."), which only got as far as 'Bonum' (f. 111, verso blank), gives references by book, chapter number, and sometimes letter division of a chapter.
Note
Written space: 215 x 150 mm.
Note
Two columns of 40 lines.
Note
Collation: 1-9¹² 10 three (ff. 109-111).
Note
Initials in red, blue and violet, some with a 'saw pattern' ornament.
Note
Capital letters in the ink of the text marked with red.
Note
Secundo folio: [o]mnia si uoluerint.
Note
Probably bound with MS 108B at Eton around 1520.
Note
The pastedown and flyleaf at each end of the volume, ff. i and 188, are bifolia from book 4 of the Institutes of Justinian in an English hand of the middle of the 14th century, written in two columns of 35 lines.
Note
The text of Augustine was probably written in France; the index was added in the late 13th/early 14th century in a current anglicana hand.
Note
A 2-line erasure on f. 110v contained a date.
Note
Folio 1 was mended poorly in the 14th century.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.2.7.
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. 721-22
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 108
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 15
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 108A
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; 2433
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
Trinity Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50034