Shelfmark
MS 2
Main entry--uniform title
Bible.
Title
Bible, v. 2 [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Title in M.R. James catalogue: Biblia sacra
Varying form of title
Title in Ker, MMBL: Biblia
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1200-1230.
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 420 x 280 mm.
Note
Secundo folio: mi ne affluant.
Note
Material: membrane. Gregory's rule FHHF.
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: c. 240 x 150 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: v, 162, v.
Note
Collation: [continuing from v.1] 22-37¹⁰.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: signatures in black ink on the verso of last folio of each quire, mostly trimmed out (e.g. f. 80v). Some leaf signatures in red roman numerals and letters, starting with "viii a" at f.1r; many have been trimmed out. Catchwords mostly trimmed out (e.g. f. 80v).
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink, mostly faded. Pricking sometimes visible on long edge.
Note
Mise-en-page: double columns (58 lines) written in a set hand on the first ruled line. Rubrics. Running headers, paragraph marks, and capitulum marks in alternating red and blue letters. Substantial corrections or marginalia are enclosed in single-line circles or boxes. There are a few guide notes written in plummet referencing running headers, probably meant for the rubricator / illuminator.
Note
Decoration: historiated initial at f.110v (Jesse asleep, Christ, and the Virgin). Decorated initials (3-37 lines) in gold, blue, pink, and green with foliage infills and motifs, sometimes including zoomorphic details (e.g. ff. 1r, 7r, 26v, 41r, 56v, 81r, 84r, 96r, 97r, 104r, 140r, 147r, 152r, 153r, 154v, 156r). Red and blue minor initials.
Note
Handwriting: northern littera textualis. Seemingly one scribe.
Note
Correction: frequent missing text and misspellings.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: some discursive signposts (ff. 151v, 152r) and at least one explanatory note (e.g. f.153r). All in the same hand, contemporary with the main text, but in a more rapid script.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Second volume of a two-volume Bible (shelfmark of first volume: MS 1). ff. 1-162: Proverbs - ends imperfectly at Acts 3:10.
Citation/references note
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 632-633
Citation/references note
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 1
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 2.
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: 15th-century note on first flyleaf verso of Volume 1: "Ex dono magistri Spenser Anno Domini 1496". Former ECL shelfmarks: Bl.1.2; Bk.1.2.
Binding
18th-century diced calfskin over paste/millboards by John Slatter c.1715. Covers decorated with double blind fillets and roll to form a panel with tools at the corners; gilt roll over board edges. Spine rebacked with gilt titling over red morocco label ("Biblia Latin Tom. [II.]"). Endpapers of undecorated modern laid paper. Repaired by R. L. Day in 1970-1971.
Subject
Bible. Manuscripts.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English 13th century.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51129