Shelfmark
MS 240(01)
Title
Fragment from a Latin commentary on the Old Testament [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
north-western Europe, 1400-1500.
Physical description
[21] leaves.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Material: paper; no watermarks visible.
Note
Format: multiple fragments from different folios torn from the same codex. Each is inlaid onto paper to form a volume.
Note
Dimensions: fragments inlaid onto paper measuring 195 x 130 mm. Many of them have been cut around the same size, about 160 x 100 mm, but the smallest one is 100 x 55 mm.Written space varies, as the fragments have been cut from different parts of the original folio.
Note
Number of leaves: 21; foliated 2-22 in pencil by a modern hand.
Note
Accompanying material: notes on lined paper written by a modern (20th-century?) hand are attached to the front lining paper of the volume. They contain summary information about the fragments, including contents.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: f.17v (and perhaps f.19v) suggests there were at least some catchwords in the original codex.
Note
Page preparation: no visible ruling or pricking.
Note
Mise-en-page: probably single columns, written in a cursive script. Chapter numbers. Biblical quotes underlined in black ink.
Note
Decoration: pen flourishes in black ink on two initials (ff. 5v, 6v).
Note
Handwriting: secretary script; multiple scribes.
Note
Correction: dotted lines below words or words stricken through with corrections added in the margin.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: signposts, corrections and brief comments in the same hand of the main text. A modern hand added contents in pencil on each folio.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Where quotes are identifiable, the commentary revolves around the Book of Kings and Paralipomenon.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 240(01)
Provenance
Origin: north-western Europe.
Provenance
Provenance: ex dono label of Eton Fellow John Reynolds, dated 1751, glued on folio 1r. Former ECL shelfmarks: MS 169a, Bl.7.29, Bl.6.24a.
Binding
20th-century half-bound sand-and-grain cloth in two different shades of brown by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Covers decorated with gilt fillets separating the two different coloured leathers. Spine flat, decorated with with gilt fillets and titling ("[Comm]ent in vet. Test. (fragm.) saec. xv."). Endpapers of modern, undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bound with another item, shelfmark MS 240(02).
Copy-specific note
The bound volume also includes a printed fragment (70 x 38 mm) of fo. xlvi of "Tractatus consultatorii venerandi magistri Henrici de Gorychum" (Cologne, 1503).
Subject
Bible Old Testament Commentaries Manuscripts.
Subject
Manuscript fragments 15th century.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Eyre & Spottiswoode binder.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B52583