The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 56911

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9629

Shelfmark:

mssHM 56911

Title:

Psalter-Hours, use of Sarum

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 219 + i : parchment ; 155 x 220 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: Originally in gatherings of 8 leaves (except for quires 1 and 14) but 17 leaves have been removed. 21 long lines (most of the litany in two columns), ruling in pale red ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-219v.
Other Decoration: Some 4-line gold initials remain.
Assigned Date: s. XVin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Written in the southern Netherlands for a English patron, perhaps living in the east midlands or East Anglia and perhaps with a connection to the Dominican house at Dunstable, to judge by the calendar. Inscribed, s. XV, "Hugo" (f. i); s. XVI, "Thomas Amerton[?]" (f. i, surname smudged); s. XVI or XVII, "and Jesus / blesse mee / my granfathers [sic] / booke / Pe [or De?]" (f. i); apparently in...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861853

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52880/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens