The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 62471
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9637
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 62471
- Title:
- Registrum brevium, in Latin and French
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1425 and 1450
- Language:
- Latin; French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 228 + ii : parchment ; 175 x 245 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog
Support: Parchment.
Script: Cursive gothic script.
Layout: 41 long lines, separated from a running heading by a blank line, and with individual heading for each writ and rule in an outer column; ruling in plummet.
Span folios: ff. 1-228v.
Other Decoration: One eight-line initial in blue with white modeling, on a gold ground, with infill and a three-sided border of conventional foliage in reds, blues, and orange, with green leaves; 3-line initials marking the remaining sections in gold on a ground of blue and reddish, with white tracery; paraph marks throughout (except in the added texts) alternately blue or red.
Written no earlier than 1430 (cf. writ on f. 7), and perhaps not long after, as the statute dated 1430 is a slightly later addition (f. 149v; this and a few other additions were made in spaces left for the purpose; they appear contemporary, but lack the colored paraphs found throughout the rest of the volume).
Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009.
Breslauer, Catalogue 71 (1950), item 70, with his typescript description of the manuscript loosely inserted (f. i). William Richard Foyle (1885-1963), co-founder of Foyles Bookshop, London; inscribed with his(?) price-code "TUO/-/-" (back pastedown, upper left), and with his gilt leather armorial bookplate "EX. LIBRIS / .W.A.FOYLE. / BEELEIGH / .ABBEY." (his home from 1943); by descent to his... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861861
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53279/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
