Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 34

Metadata

DS ID:

DS18151

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 34

Title:

John of Hoveden, Philomena

Philomena

Author:

Hoveden, John, -1275

John of Howden WIKIDATA

Place:

Netherlands?

Netherlands TGN

Date:

approximately 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 120 leaves : parchment ; 124 x 86 (75 x 50) mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 120; 1-158; quires signed a, i, etc.; pastedowns formed from first leaf of quire 1 and last leaf of quire 15.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in plummet; prickings visible in outer margins.
Script: Written in lettre bâtarde media.
Decoration: fol. 4, blue initials decorated with pink, green, and gold floral motifs; gold stem extended to form a bracket left acanthus border; alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks.
Origin: Written in Holland or Germany in the lower Rhine Valley in the middle of the 15th century.

Keyword:

bastarda

illuminated manuscripts

Jesus Christ

Poetry

Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Newberry Library