Shelfmark
MS 116
Author
Thomas, 1225? - 1274 Aquinas, Saint
Uniform title
[Summa theologica. Pars 1]
Title
T. Aquinas, Prima pars Summae. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: S. Thomae Aquinatis Summae liber I
Publication, distribution, etc.
England?, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1325.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 154 leaves) : parchment, initials ; 33 x 22 cm.
Note
The first part of the Summa theologica of St Thomas Aquinas (ff. 1-149r) followed by a table of the 119 questions contained in the main text (ff. 149v-153v); f. 154v was left blank and pasted down.
Note
Partly dismembered in the first half of the 17th century, when 36 leaves were removed between f. 144v and f. 145; six bifolia (12 leaves) were used in the bindings of Eton college accounts and are now in a volume of fragments (Eton MS 219), including one bifolium of fragments of an alphabetical index which may have preceded the main text (now pp. 47-50 in MS 219).
Note
MS 116, f. 144v ends in Q. 91 a 2 (section 445), and f. 145r begins in Q. 117 a 1 (section 576); ten of the 36 leaves missing in this gap are in Eton MS 219 where they are bound as pp. 39-46, 35-38, 27-34, containing parts or all of sections 455-458, 466-468, 479-483, 490-497, 533-538, 549-557, 560-564, and 572-576.
Note
Written space: 225 x 140 mm.
Note
Two columns of 51 or 52 lines.
Note
Line numbering by fives between the columns on ff. 1-46r.
Note
Collation including leaves in MS 219: 1 two (a bifolium: MS 219, pp. 47-50) 2-13¹² (ff. 1-144) 14 four (the outside bifolium and another: MS 219, pp. 39-46) 15 two (the outside bifolium: MS 219, pp. 35-38) 16 four (the outside bifolium and another: MS 219, 27-34) 17¹² wants 10, 11, blank: 12 pasted down (ff. 145-154).
Note
Ad hoc signatures in pencil.
Note
On f. 1 is a 5-line initial in pink patterned in white on blue and red decorated ground and a gold frame; other initials are 2-line in blue with red ornament or red with pale green ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: vnde manifestum.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1520.
Note
Written probably in England.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.3.2.
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. 726
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 116
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 118
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 116 + 219, pp. 27-50
Provenance
On the evidence of the binding, at Eton by ca. 1520.
Binding
16th century English calf binding by Lisley; blind-tooled with fourfold diagonal lines intersecting; chain-marks on lower front fore-edge.
Subject
Thomas, 1225? - 1274 Aquinas, Saint
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Lisley, Andrew, active 1520 - 1521 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50047