The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 111

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9594

Shelfmark:

mssHM 111

Title:

Poems

Author:

Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450

Thomas Hoccleve WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

date of publication not identified

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

frm

Middle French WIKIDATA

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 49 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 155 (155-170 x 90) mm

Former Owner(s):

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales WIKIDATA

Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774

Anthony Askew WIKIDATA

Mason, George, 1735-1806

George Mason WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke,
Binding: 17th-century. Brown calf with the arms of Henry, Prince of Wales. Evidence of blue or green cloth fore edge ties; rebacked; stabbing from a previous binding in the gutters.
Binding shows the book to have been in the library of Prince Henry (1594-1612); see S. Jayne an F.R. Johnson, The Lumley Library: the Catalogue of 1609 (London 1956), this manuscript recorded on p. 303. Already alienated by 1661 when the printed books and manuscripts of the Royal Library were catalogued by Thomas Ross (Henry E. Huntington Library, HM 180). Belonged to Anthony Askew (1722-72...

Keyword:

Armorial bindings

manuscripts (documents)

English poetry--Middle English

Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1820121

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:9873/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens