Shelfmark
MS 170
Title
Pharetra sacramenti. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Pharetra sacramenti, contra Lollardos
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1400 and ca. 1450.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 130, vi leaves) : parchment, initials ; 18.7 x 11.5 cm.
Note
Anti-Lollard tract on the sacraments in two parts, each of three "particulae"; other copies are at Cambridge University Library, Ff.6.44 ff. 57-133 and Lambeth Palace, MS 392, ff. 59-111.
Note
Part I ends "Explicit tractatus de sacramento eukaristie" (f. 68v); its third particula (ff. 36-68v) consists of 48 "miracula" in four sets of 12: no. 7 of the fourth set happened in the church of St Mary Magdalene "in suburbio Oxonie" on St James's Day, 1262.
Note
Part II begins "Incipit tractatus de sacramento penitencie" (f. 68v); its third particula consists of miracles taken mainly from "Cesarius" (of Heisterbach), and a few beginning "Refert gerardus barri" (i.e. Giraldus Cambrensis).
Note
Annotations on the medieval binding leaves: ff. iii, iv contain 14th-century current anglicana containing notes on optics (burning-glasses).
Note
Annotations on the medieval binding leaves: ff. 132v-133 contain the latter part of a Franciscan letter of fraternity dated from Boston "circa festum natiuitatis Beate Marie Virginis", 1372
Note
Written below the letter of fraternity on ff. 132v-133, the other way up, is (?) a conveyance of messuage "cum duobus croftis" dated from "Leek in festo sancti Michaelis", in a current anglicana of the second half of the 14th century; the outside of this sheet of folded parchment (ff. 132r, 133v) contains fragments of a theological text in English of the second half of the 14th century, written in a similar hand.
Note
See Ker as cited in the references below for further details and a partial transcriptions of the annotations.
Note
Ff. iii, iv, 131. 132, 133, 134 are medieval binding leaves; ff. 131 and 134 were a blank flyleaf and pastedown.
Note
Written space: 135 x 85 mm.
Note
22 to 26 long lines.
Note
Ruling with pencil.
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Collation: 1-18¹⁶ 9².
Note
Signatures in the common late-medieval style.
Note
Written in current anglicana.
Note
3-line initials in blue with red ornament.
Note
Secundo folio: suis nefandis.
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Rebound at Eton around 1720 by Slatter.
Note
Written in England.
Note
The annotations on the endleaves suggest a provenance from the east of England; "Leek" is probably Leake, near Boston.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.6.25.
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. 768-9
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 170
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 92
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 170
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 3293
Binding
18th century English calf binding by John Slatter.
Subject
Lollards Manuscripts.
Subject
Sacraments Manuscripts.
Subject
Miracles Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50131