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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9625

Shelfmark:

mssHM 55658

Title:

Meditationes Vitae Christi

Meditationes vitae Christi

Author:

Pseudo-Bonaventure

Pseudo-Bonaventure WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Braybrook

Andrew Braybrook WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 99 + i : parchment ; 185 x 264 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: Two columns each of 38 lines; ruled in faint plummet, each column bounded by single lines extending the full height and width of the page. Gatherings of 8 leaves except for quires 6, 7, 11, 13 that have 6 leaves, and quire 14 that has 4.
Span folios: ff. 1-99v.
The scribe's name, "Braybrook" (f. 98v), has been associated, without strong evidence, with Robert de Braybrook (d. 1404), dean of Salisbury and bishop of London; for biographical information on Robert and his relatives see Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Medieval and Colonial Families (Baltimore, 2004), 146-148. The second scribe in this manuscript copied the excerpts on...
Assigned Date: s. XVin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat (on whom see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), signed "Edw Hoby" and inscribed with the motto "Fato quam voto," which also appears with his signature in London, British Library, Additional MS 4899 (the same signature appears in Additional MSS 4897 and 8151, but in both of these the motto is "Aurea libertas"). After his death the...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861849

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens