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: 21 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: 21 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 originally framed and glazed, the frame with a printed label "P. J. BACHMANN / FINE ARTS," 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" and "formerly PSS 389."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

detached leaves

Italy

Fourteenth century

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

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

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens