The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 144

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9614

Shelfmark:

mssHM 144

Title:

Prose and poetry

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

late 15th/early 16th century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Middle English and Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 152 leaves : paper ; 290 x 200 (185-197 x 130-146) mm

Former Owner(s):

Thynne, William, -1546

William Thynne WIKIDATA

Stow, John, 1525?-1605

John Stow WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Paper, at least 9 watermarks, ff. iv + 152; 110(art. 1) 212(-11, 12; art. 2) 316 48(through f. 44) 516 66(through f. 66) 714(art. 11) 816 918(-4 after f. 99; through f. 113) 1010 1112 1212(-10 after f. 144 without loss of text) 1310(-5, 7, 8, 10). Quire and leaf signatures: quire 1, none; quire 2, in roman numerals; quires 3-5 in a not infrequent system of roman numerals only for the first...
Written in England at the turn of the fifteenth century in a large, clumsy hybrida script, by the same person who copied Oxford, Trinity College MS 29; Latin passages in a more formal script. The excised and the blank leaves dividing texts, and the correspondence between quire structure and texts suggest that the book may have been produced in as many as eight fascicles. Watermarks and...
Plain 3- to 1-line red initials; spaces reserved on ff. 120v, 125v, 129 (Books 2-4 of Magnus Cato); paragraph marks, deletions and underlining in red. Running headlines in ink of the text across the opening.
An early possibly the first owner (the copyist himself?) had access to a manuscript which had belonged to the Augustinian monastery in Bisham Montague, Berkshire, and which was used for reinforcement in the binding. Other 16th century owners wrote their names in the book: f. ii, among many pentrials, "John thyll [second word erased]. John tylly owth for ii bowsylles of wy[cropped] the pres...

Keyword:

Manuscript waste

manuscripts (documents)

English poetry--Middle English

English literature--Middle English

Didactic poetry, English (Middle)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849876

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:41289/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens