The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47750

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9624

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47750

Title:

Folio Bible, fragment

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

14th century

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : parchment ; 245 x 350 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: Tthe central bifolium of a quire; 19 long lines, ruled in plummet, the single vertical and horizontal bounding lines extending the full height and width of the page.
Span folios: ff. 1-2v.
May be somewhat earlier in date, to s. XIII ex. A protruding yellow leather marker is attached to the fore-edge next to the large initial.
Assigned Date: s. XIV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Probably written for a Benedictine house, as suggested by the Benedictine sub-division of Psalm 17 at 17:26 (cf. Rule of St Benedict, chapter XVIII). Inscribed in pencil twice with an American(?) dealer's price-code and price: "sas / 250." Inscribed "Transferred from R[are] B[ooks] stacks 2/23/65."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861848

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53281/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens