Shelfmark
MS 221
Title
Fragmenta. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
England or France, between ca. 1250 and ca. 1500.
Physical description
1 volume (25 leaves) : parchment.
Note
Collection of manuscript fragments.
Note
Leaves of manuscripts were used as covers of the 'rough copies' of the annual college accounts from some years of the 16th century and most years from 1598 to 1648. These old covers were preserved when this series of accounts was rebound in white vellum in the 18th century. In 1920 the smaller ones were put together in a bound volume (MS 219) and the larger ones were put loose in a portfolio (MS 221).
Note
Sixteen different manuscripts were used, numbered by Ker I-XVIII. From 1609 if not earlier, they were often leaves of manuscripts from College Library.
Note
47 of the 49 pieces in these two volumes have the date of the account on them. Ker arranges the fragments in the order of the dates of the accounts.
Note
This record describes the fragments in MS 221, retaining Ker's numbering of the constituent pieces. This volume contains fragments I-V, IX, XI and XVIII.
Note
See Ker as cited below for additional details and references, and for the dates of the account books as marked on the fragments.
Note
MS 221, nos. 1, 2 (fragment I): Two leaves from the temporale of a handsome noted breviary, the music not filled in, written in England in the mid-15th century. -- Dimensions not recorded by Ker; written space 380 x 247 mm. Two columns of 54 lines. Headings in red but coloured initials not filled in. Elaborate cadels.
Note
MS 221, no. 3 (fragment II): One leaf from the sanctorale of a missal written in England in the early 15th century, offices of Scholastica, Valentine, Juliana, Chair of Peter, and Matthew, 10-24 Feb. -- Leaf dimensions 410 x 270 mm; written space 270 x 175 mm. Two columns of 26 lines. Initials: 2-line, blue with red ornament or 1-line, blue or red. -- 16th-century annotation "Hampshier in Harlinge the dampshier".
Note
MS 221, no. 4 (fragment III): Two leaves (the central bifolium of a quire) of the calendar of a service book written in England in the early 15th century. May-August in red and black, graded, with added obits showing provenance from St George's Chapel, Windsor, including Henry VI at 21 May and Henry VII at 11 May, with payments against some names. The feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been cancelled at 7 July and his name is cancelled in a list of feasts at which a memoria is said at vespers "in ecclesia Sarum", entered in a blank space in May. -- Written space 290 x 205 mm.
Note
MS 221, no. 5 (fragment IV): One leaf from the temporale of a gradual written in England in the early 15th century, beginning in the sequence "Resonet" and ending in the sequence "Eya musa" (Monday and Tuesday after Pentecost). -- Written space 320 x 210 mm. Two columns of 14 lines and music.
Note
MS 221, nos. 6, 7 (fragment V): Two central bifolia of a quire (continuous text from book 16) of a handsome copy of Gregory, Moralia in Job, written in England in the mid-12th century. -- 395 x 265 mm; written space 272 x 170 mm. Two columns of 37 lines. Pencil ruling.
Note
MS 221, nos. 8-17 (fragment IX): Five complete leaves, three of them cut in two, and two half leaves from the temporale of a large antiphonal written in England in the 15th century. -- No. 12 is the first leaf of the text and almost entirely rubric; no. 14+17 is a principal page with the beginning of the Epiphany office. Cues of memoriae of St Thomas of Canterbury have been erased on no. 15+16. -- Written space 395 x 265 mm. Two columns of 60 lines.
Note
MS 221, nos. 18, 19 (fragment XI): Two bifolia of sequences from the sanctorale and common of saints of a noted missal written in England in the mid-14th century. Begins with a headless sequence [1] 'sere da puros mentis oculos in te defigere cristianissimi fidem operibus redimere beatoque fine. Ex eius incolatu seculi auctor ad te transire.' (no. 19, leaf 1); nos. [2-11] are: Alle celeste, Ad celebres (no. 19, leaf 1); Odas hac in die, Sacrosancta (no. 18, leaf 1); Allelluia nunc, Laus deuota, Organicis (no. 18, leaf 2); Virginis venerande, Exultemus, Ierusalem (no. 19, leaf 2). Only [2], [7] and [10] are complete.
Note
MS 221, no. 20 (fragment XVIII): One leaf of the commentary on Psalms by Nicholas de Lyra, written in England in the second half of the 15th century. Fragment contains the end of the commentary on Psalm 23 '... glorie tue' and the beginning of the commentary on Psalm 24 '[A]d te domine leuaui animam meam ...'. -- Written space 305 x 195 mm. Two columns of 60 lines. Written in a current mixture of anglicana and secretary, the ascenders not looped.
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. 785-789
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 221
Binding
Fragments bound in a volume in 1920.
Copy-specific note
Previously Sa2.4.04 horiz.
Subject
Nicholas, ca. 1270 - 1349 of Lyra
Subject
Gregory, approximately 540 - 604 I, Pope
Subject
Subject
Theology Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Gregory, approximately 540 - 604 I, Pope Moralia in Job.
Added entry--name
Nicholas, ca. 1270 - 1349 of Lyra
Added entry--name
Catholic Church Antiphonary.
Added entry--name
Catholic Church Breviary.
Added entry--name
Catholic Church Missal.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50197