The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 63330

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9587

Shelfmark:

mssHM 63330

Title:

Liber ruralium commodorum

Author:

Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320

Pietro de' Crescenzi WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 179 : parchment ; 280 x 200 mm

Note:

Written in England in the middle of the 15th century.
Parchment; ff. i (paper) + ii (medieval parchment) + 179 + i (original? parchment) + ii (medieval parchment) + i (paper); approx. 280 × 200 (200–205 × 135) mm. 18(−1) 2–228 232(−2)? 246(−1, 5, 6); the original structure of the last 2 quires is uncertain: they may have also contained texts such as the dedication; catchwords and leaf signatures survive in most quires; the quires are numbered in...
15th century inscription: In primis Iohannes Haryson – xli / In primis Wylliam. Book VI glossed with names of plants in English in a 16th cent. hand. From the library of William Constable Maxwell, 10th Lord Herries. After his death the manuscript probably passed to his son, Marmaduke Francis Constable Maxwell, 11th Lord Herries; and after the latter’s death to his eldest daughter, Gwendoline...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Agriculture

Latin literature, Medieval and modern

Ruralia commoda (Crescenzi, Pietro de')

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1629942

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53297/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens