The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 114

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9613

Shelfmark:

mssHM 114

Title:

Piers Plowman; Mandeville; Troilus; etc.

Author:

Langland, William, 1330?-1400

William Langland WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

middle of the 15th century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 325 leaves : paper ; 215 x 140 (165 x 100) mm

Former Owner(s):

Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641

Henry Spelman WIKIDATA

Taylor, John, 1704-1766

John Taylor WIKIDATA

Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774

Anthony Askew WIKIDATA

Gough, Richard, 1735-1809

Richard Gough WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper; parchment outer and center bifolia in each quire. ff. 325 + iv (parchment); due to a previous error in foliation, ff. 20-117 are, since 1971, numbered 21-118. 1-6¹⁶ 7¹⁸ 8¹⁶(through f. 130) 9¹⁶(-7, 10 with loss of text) 10-12¹⁶(through f. 192) 13-16¹⁶ 17¹⁶(+5, f. 261) 18¹⁶(+5 and 6, singletons, ff. 278, 279) 19¹⁶ 20¹⁶(+10 and 17, ff. 317, 324). Catchwords in red or brown ink frames; leaf...
Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century. Written by one scribe in an anglicana script; sections 3 and 4 apparently in a more hurried hand.
Opening initials, f. 1, 5-line, and f. 193, 3-line, blue with red flourishing; in first text, 3- and 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; remainder of volume with alternating 3- and 2-line red or blue initials; running headlines, rubrics, Latin quotations and paragraph marks in red. Corrections in another 15th century hand. Tabs at the beginning of most articles. The word "pope" erased...
Leaves wormed in upper and inner margins; ff. 139, 146 and 324 defective in text areas.
16th century annotations, include "Richard" whose name appears in the initials of the back flyleaves, and "Thomas Browne," who signed his name on f. 299v and on the back flyleaf ii verso. Owned by Sir Henry Spelman, his name is written at the beginning of each section. Later belonged to Dr. John Taylor who bequeathed his books to Anthony Askew; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 March 1785, lot 319 to...

Keyword:

Manuscript waste

manuscripts (documents)

Voyages and travels

Geography, Medieval

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Troilus (Legendary character)

Magi

Cressida (Fictitious character)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849872

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:31197/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens