Shelfmark
MS 218
Author
Bernard, 1090 or 1091 - 1153 of Clairvaux, Saint
Uniform title
[Sermones super Cantica Canticorum. Selections]
Title
Fragment from Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1125-1175.
Physical description
19 leaves ; 173 x 132 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Material: membrane. Green marks left by copper clasps from a former binding are present on most leaves.
Note
Format: fragment; multiple leaves from lost codex.
Note
Written space: 150 x 100 mm.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in plummet; pricking sometimes visible on long margin.
Note
Mise-en-page: single columns (33 lines) written above the top ruled line in a set script. Rubrics.
Note
Decoration: simple initials (3-8 lines) in red or green.
Note
Handwriting: littera praegothica; one scribal hand.
Note
Correction: none visible in this fragment.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: the main scribe has added a signpost on f.7v and nota ligatures on f.18r. Other later hands include a list of references with page numbers on f.17v (?18th-century), as well as former ECL shelfmarks.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Fragment of Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons on the Song of Songs, from "in te. Si manum" in sermon 24 to "spiritualia comparantes" in sermon 31 (references to Sancti Bernardi Opera, ed. J. Leclercq et al., 1957-1977, i.160/11 - i.223/5).
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British Libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 784-785
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford bindings (Oxford, 1954), no. 1121
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 218
Provenance
Origin: England. "The text is closely similar to R (Bodleian, Rawlinson C. 118), a contemporary manuscript written almost certainly at Reading" (Ker, p. 784).
Provenance
Provenance: a total of 58 leaves are currently known to have been torn from the original codex which this fragment comes from. They are scattered across Oxford libraries and Eton (for details see Ker, pp. 784-785). The 19 leaves that make MS 218 were removed from ECL Gf.6.07 - Gf.6.16, a 10-volume set of Aristotle's works printed in Venice in 1560, bound in Oxford by Dominic Pinart.
Binding
20th-century half-bound vellum and paper from 1919. Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Bernard, 1090 or 1091 - 1153 of Clairvaux, Saint Manuscripts.
Subject
Sermons Manuscripts.
Genre/Form
Manuscript waste.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50167