The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 70391

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9642

Shelfmark:

mssHM 70391

Title:

Lectern Bible leaf from Ezekiel 47:19-48:7

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1340 and 1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. 1r-v : parchment ; 305 x 455 mm

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Formal gothic script.
Layout: Two columns of 22 lines; ruled in ink.
Span folios: f.1r-v.
Other Decoration: 2-line initials in gold on a parti-colored blue and rose ground with white tracery ornament, with leafy extensions extending up and down the outer margin; chapter number "XLVIII" and running headings "EXE" [sic] "CHIEL" in alternate red and blue characters.
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
This leaf is probably f. 335 of the parent volume.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/7/2009.
Published literature suggests that the parent volume was written perhaps for a nunnery, perhaps in East Anglia, and was perhaps volume III of a four-volume set of which volume I is now London, British Library, Royal MS 1 E.iv. Owned by Richard Legh in 1613 (perhaps Richard Legh, b. 1549?, of East Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, or Richard Legh, b. 1554, of West Hall, High Legh): the last leaf of...

Keyword:

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861867

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53359/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens