The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47643

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9622

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47643

Title:

Decorated initials, cuttings

Decorated initial

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14th century

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 sets of cuttings : parchment ; 80 x 430 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: (i) 7 cuttings of the letter "I" from the same manuscript as HM 47642, with six lines of text and music on four-line red staves, ca. 34 mm. high (430 x 80 mm; other letters ca. 130-180 x 45-60 mm). (ii) 5 cuttings of the letter "M,", four from the same manuscript as HM 47642, and one in another style, presumably from a second manuscript. (iii) 9 cuttings of the letter "G," six from the...
Music: Music on 4-line red staves.
Span folios: 3 sets of cuttings.
Mainly from the same manuscript as HM 47642, with some from a second manuscript (an initial M) and some (2 or 3 letter Gs) from a third. Overall measurements are of the largest initial (an I of the first set of cuttings).
Assigned Date: s. XIV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
All three manuscripts written in Italy. The "M" initials framed and glazed, the frame with a printed label "P. J. BACHMANN / FINE ARTS / 1908 S. Figueroa St. / Los Angeles Cal.," the probable source of all parts of HM 47642 and 47643. Alice Millard (d. 1938), rare book dealer of Pasadena. Mounts and labels inscribed in pencil with stock(?)-numbers, e.g. "#18," and "from the Millard Collection...

Keyword:

detached leaves

Italy

Fourteenth century

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861846

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens