Shelfmark
MS 203
Author
Jacobus,, ca. 1229 - 1298 de Voragine
Uniform title
[Legenda aurea]
Title
J. de Voragine, Legenda aurea. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
France, between ca. 1325 and ca. 1375.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 380 leaves) : parchment, initials ; 21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Note
Originally probably the 182 pieces from Advent to De dedication ecclesiae printed in Graesse's edition (1845) together with a supplement of 6 pieces in the main hand.
Note
According to the table of contents (ff. 379v-380v), two quires now missing after f. 300 contained the pieces numbered 174-176, 176-180 in Graesse's edition; perhaps no. 177 was passed over in error.
Note
Contents and order differ only slightly from Graesse; see Ker as cited in the references below.
Note
Running title of Graesse, no. 181 (Pelagius) is here "De sancto beda". In one of its margins (f. 361v) a reader noted "Item apparuerunt tres soles Anno domini Mo CCCo lxviiio et apparuerunt in occidente ixa die Iunii et erat verus sol in medio".
Note
The supplement (ff. 368-379v) contains pieces "De sancto prorso", "De sancto martiale", "De sancto saturnino", "De sancta eulalia", "De sancta columba", and "De sancto iuliano".
Note
Medieval foliation 1-360, 385-403 takes account of two missing quires.
Note
Written space: ca. 150 x 103 mm.
Note
Two columns of 39 lines.
Note
Ruling with two double vertical lines used to bound the left side of the first column on versos and the right side of the second column out rectos, and single vertical lines elsewhere.
Note
Collation: 1-30¹² 31-32¹⁰.
Note
Quires 1-5 marked "cor" at end (for "correctum"?).
Note
Initials: on f. 1, a 4-line red U on a blue and gold decorated ground, with a dragon in the margin; other initials 3-line in blue or red with ornament of the other colour and tails of both colours, the height of the book.
Note
The letters of "Uniuersum" following the initial U on f. 1 are in capitals on a patterned red ground.
Note
Capital letters in the ink of the text stroked with red.
Note
Secundo folio: bus erat.
Note
Contemporary binding; see description in binding notes.
Note
The pastedowns are two fragments of a document in a 15th-century French hand, still mostly fastened down, blank dorse exposed; on an unstuck corner at the back the words "guillielmo houssaye bachelar'", "predictus religious vir frater Iohannes de la plan" and "sigillo curie andeg' et petiit ab eodem domino offic'" are legible in successive lines.
Note
Written in France.
Note
An erasure on f. 380v was read by J. A. Herbert using a reagent: "Iste liber est domini abbatis sancti albini [ande]g'" [i.e. Angers]; "albini" can be read under ultraviolet light.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 778-9
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 203
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 3594
Provenance
Previously owned by the Benedictine abbey of St Aubin, Angers.
Provenance
Given to Eton College by Major W. J. Myers in 1896.
Binding
14th-century binding of white skin over wooden boards; five bands; a central strap and pin from the front to the back cover is missing; hole towards the foot of the front cover may be a chain hole.
Subject
Jacobus,, ca. 1229 - 1298 de Voragine
Subject
Christian saints Biography Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
Added entry--name
Benedictines former owner.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50144