The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 57341

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9631

Shelfmark:

mssHM 57341

Title:

Breviary, use of Sarum

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1390 and 1410

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 229 + i : parchment ; 100 x 145 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: First quire of 14 leaves (minus the first), thereafter of 12 leaves. All quires except the last have catchwords; traces of red ink leaf signatures "a"-"s", in the form "a i"-"a vi", in all quires except the first (i.e. quire 2 is "a"). Two columns of 36 lines of text ruled in very pale ink, rubrics in red.
Span folios: ff. 1-229v.
Other Decoration: Penwork decoration occasionally includes human faces or heads (e.g. ff. 26v, 29v, 41, 102, 107, etc.), at least once within an initial (f. 114v).
Foliated sporadically in modern pencil in lower right corners, "60" repeated and thus ending at "228."
Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
Written in England. Inscribed, s. XVIII(?),"12" (f. 2r, upper margin), perhaps in France by the owner responsible for the binding. An adhesive rectangular label, s. XX(?), with perforated edges, printed with a blue frame, inscribed in ink "M. 3" and in pencil "b[?]E 1189" (front pastedown, top left corner). Inscribed in pencil, s. XX, "MS [. . .]", "X3580" encircled, and with a price code...

Keyword:

breviaries

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861855

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52844/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens