The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHU 1051

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9606

Shelfmark:

mssHU 1051

Title:

Alchemical, medical and technical compilation

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

15th-16th centuries].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 148 leaves : paper ; 222 x 147-165 (135-178 x 80-132) mm

Former Owner(s):

Hastings (Family)

Hastings family WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Paper, ii (modern paper) + 148 leaves + ii (modern paper); collation cannot be determined, as all leaves are mounted on stubs. Contemporary foliation by the second copyist (with the modern foliation used in this description given in parentheses): 1-21 (1-21), 27-37 (22-32), 44-46 (33-35), 48-60 (36-48), 43-44 (49-50), 27-37 37 (51-61), 39 (62), 96-98 (63-65), 109-111 (66-68), 127 on the verso...
Written in England during the fiteenth and sixteenth centuries by 13 people, usually in current anglicana scripts with some secretary forms; the second copyist was also responsible for the contemporary foliation and for the numbering of some of the recipes. The divisions are: i, ff. 1-8v, s. XVmed; ii, ff. 9-19, 21r-v, 36-38v, parts of 39-56 (with copyist vii), 62v, 66v-71v, 72v-82v, 125v-127...
Generally unornamented; the most formal section, ff. 128-129, with 2-line calligraphic initials in blue and with rubrics in alternating red or blue. On ff. 1-6v, plain red 2-line initials and 1-line initials within the text touched in red; on f. 83, a plain red 1-line initial; on ff. 141, 144v-145, 148v, 2- and 1-line plain red initials, 1-line initials within the text touched in red and red...
Several leaves damaged along inner margin, with some loss of text; text on several leaves faded.
Included among the pen trials on f. 125v what may be a copyists or an owners name, "[w]ell beloved rotgers." On f. 1, signature dating ca. 1600 "Jo. Bisshop," the same person who signed another alchemical and medical compilation formed of several manuscripts and formerly in the Hastings collection. Belonged to the Hastings family, earls of Huntingdon. Purchased with the Hastings papers in...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Alchemy

Medicine

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1841463

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p16003coll14:1101/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens