The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 62595

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9638

Shelfmark:

mssHM 62595

Title:

Treatises on civil and canon law, etc.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 137 : parchment ; 90 x 145 mm

Former Owner(s):

Crotty, Homer D

Homer D. Crotty WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: Produced in two parts, quires 1-16 (through f. 121) and 17-20, as three codicological units: quires 1-5 (through f. 41) have vertical catchwords and traces of leaf signatures; ff. 23v and 24v both have catchwords; f. 26 has two leaf signatures, vertical catchword only on f. 115v preceding the singleton f. 116; quires 17-20 have no surviving catchwords or leaf signatures. Quires 1-16...
Other Decoration: One 4-line initial formed of a dragon against a square blue ground (f. 1, smudged); one simpler 3-line initial, perhaps enclosing a human or animal head, uncertain due to flaked pigment (f. 42).
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/5/2009.
Early owners; s. XV and XVI inscriptions include: "Joannes Larroyanus / huius libri verus pocessor[?]" and "jeannes laroy[. . . ]"(f. ir); very indistinct inscription including the letters "M. . . hez. . . m"(?) (front pastedown, top left corner). Inscribed, s. XVII or XVIII "20" (f. 1, upper margin). Unidentified French owner, s. XIX: inscribed with a table of contents and at the bottom the...

Keyword:

figure initials

manuscripts (documents)

Law

Civil law

Canon law

France

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861862

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53284/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens