The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssBA 30

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9646

Shelfmark:

mssBA 30

Title:

Cartulary of the office of sacristan of Battle Abbey

Scribe:

Waller, John, sacristan of Battle Abbey

John Waller WIKIDATA

Place:

Battle Abbey

Date:

1400-1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 138 + iii : parchment ; 193 x 266 mm

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: 18(+9 and an unfoliated strip) 210(+ an unfoliated strip, and + 11) 3-78 88(+ an unfoliated strip sewn on 7) 98(+9, 10) 1012(+ original charter, 1 membrane unfoliated) 11-1312 144(+ an unfoliated strip) 15(? 8 leaves of uncertain structure). Catchwords on quires 8, 15; occasional binder's signatures. In long lines of varying numbers, lightly ruled in lead point, single bounding lines.
Span folios: ff. 1-138.
Other Decoration: The initials in both parts of the text, that by John Waller and that by the other main writer, are by the same person; the flourishing has not been added to the section of the manuscript written by Waller.
On f. 9, the rubric ending, "Que carte transcripte erant per manus [sic] domini Iohannis Waller Sacriste de Bello. Anno Regni Regis henrici quarti post conquestum decimo et undecimo," offering the internal date of 1408-1410 for part of the codex. John Waller, who copied this section (ff. 9r-v, the following small strip and 21-78v), was the sacristan of Battle Abbey from 1408 until ca. 1417; he...
Assigned Date: s. XVin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/31/2009.
Written at Battle Abbey in Sussex at the beginning of the fifteenth century with additions to 1512. Acquired by Sir Anthony Browne who purchased Battle Abbey in 1538-39. Passed to his son, created Viscount Montague in 1554; ex libris on f. 4, "Iste liber attinet Anthonio Browne vic. mountague." Remained in the family until 1721 when it was sold with the abbey to Sir Thomas Webster . The Battle...

Keyword:

cartularies

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861871

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52883/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens