The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 55670

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9628

Shelfmark:

mssHM 55670

Title:

Glossed Gospel of Mark

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1185 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 88 + ii : parchment ; 180 x 250 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Pregothic.
Layout: Gatherings of 8 leaves, but the last is of 2. Traces of catchwords survive in quires 2-6; modern pencil quire signatures. Up to 28 lines of gloss (written "above top line") or 14 lines of biblical text, in two columns; prickings in all four margins; ruled in plummet for two columns of text bounded by pairs of verticals ruled the full height of the page, of the horizontal lines the 1st...
Span folios: ff. 1-88v.
Other Decoration: Colored penwork, marking pre-Vulgate divisions of the text.
Assigned Date: s. XIIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Written doubtless at and for a monastic library, as suggested by the texts and the mediocre parchment. On f. 4, s. XVI, "Sum hoptouni[?] & amicorum suorum." "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 29 March 1944, lot 666; bought by Maggs. "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 14 March 1949, lot 144, bought by Bond. Foster William Bond (1901-81), philatelist; sold by order...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

glosses (annotations)

Bible. Mark

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861852

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51766/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens