Shelfmark
MS 108B
Author
Title
Tabula in N. de Lyra, etc. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Augustini et Nic. de Lyra quaedam
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1400 and ca. 1425.
Physical description
1 volume (ff. 112-187) : parchment, initials ; 33.8 x 22.5 cm.
Note
The Tabula super Nicolaum de Lyra of Gulielmus Norton (ff. 112-185v) followed by a list of 207 "questiones ... super Bibliam" of Nicholas of Lyra (ff. 186-7), forming the second part of a composite volume of ff. i, 188, i with Eton MS 108A, Augustinus, De Trinitate.
Note
Explicit of the Tabula: "Explicit tabula super doctorem de lyra. compilata et scripta per fratrem Willelmum Morton de sacro ordine fratrum Minorum in counentu Couentrey Anno domini m° ccccmo tercio et c'".
Note
Copies of the Tabula are in Bodley MS 42 (1846), Exeter College MS 16, Lincoln College MS 69 and Merton College MS 12, all calling the author William Norton.
Note
References to Lyra's postils are by book of the Bible, chapter number and letter division of chapter.
Note
The "questiones Fratris Nicholai de Lira super Bibliam" (ff. 186-7) are 207 questions in alphabetical order; see Ker as cited in the references below for additional details.
Note
Written space: 220 x 140 mm (Tabula); 253 x 185 mm (Questiones).
Note
Two columns of 46-55 lines.
Note
Frame ruling on pages where the writing is current.
Note
Collation: 1-3⁸ 4⁴ + 1 leaf before 1 (f. 136) 5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ + 1 leaf before 1 (f. 151) 7⁸ + 1 leaf before 1 (f. 162) 8¹² 9⁴ wants 4, blank, 10² (ff. 186-7).
Note
Several hands writing anglicana and current mixtures of anglicana and secretary; also secretary (the Questiones, ff. 186-7) and a ?continental cursiva (ff. 142-144v).
Note
Folio 112 has a 6-line blue initial patterned in white, on a ground of punched gold, decorated in colours, with prolongations forming a continuous border; other initials in blue with red ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: 2a ut (f. 113).
Note
Probably bound with MS 108A 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
Notes in the hand of Robert Elyot, vice provost of Eton (d. 1499) including "a seeler or a keuer of gold" as a gloss to "propiciatorium", f. 164.
Note
Folio 187rv contains notes of three quodlibets of Nicholas of Lyra in a manuscript which Dr (Thomas) Gascoigne gave to Lincoln College, Oxford; a note on measures "De quadam veteri biblia extracta de Cant'" (perhaps a Bible at Canterbury College, Oxford), both in Elyot's hand; and a "Nota hugonem de vienna magnum theologum super prou' capitulo 14 ...", listing 17 critical marks.
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 108B
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; 2433
Provenance
At Eton before 1500 on the evidence of the notes in the hand of Robert Elyot.
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
Nicholas, ca. 1270 - 1349 of Lyra
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
Added entry--name
Elyot, Robert, ? - 1499 annotator.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50035