The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 34 C 9 (EL 1121)
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9648
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 34 C 9 (EL 1121)
- Title:
- Historical miscellany
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin with one text in French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 54 : paper ; 223 x 294 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied from printed catalog.
Composite volume.
Support: Paper.
Part. 1. Span folios: ff. 1-37v. Script: Anglicana with some secretary forms. Layout: Written space: 235 x 165 mm. The book begins and ends defectively; quire structure is lost, due to remounting of the leaves on stubs. Evidence of cropped catchwords on ff. 5v, 13v, 14v, 17v, 29v; 2 columns of 45-46 lines. Watermark(s): 4 watermarks: 1 unidentified, the others Monts, similar to Briquet 11894...
Part 2. Span folios: ff. 38-54v. Script: Secretary with anglicana forms. Layout: The book begins and ends defectively; quire structure is lost, due to remounting of the leaves on stubs. Text 1 of this part, leaves signed a-h in the gutter on the recto; its written space 218 x 125 mm, in up to 42 lines of verse and prose. Text 2 of this part, written space 218 x 145 mm, in 48-52 long lines in a...
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/4/2009.
A note, s. XV, on f. 37v "Dominus Nicholaus" may refer to an owner or to the Trevet text completed on f. 37 recto. The 2 parts were probably brought together by the time John Egerton (1622-86), 2nd Earl of Bridgewater wrote the early Bridgewater pressmark on f. 2, "M:1/3." Additional Bridgewater pressmarks "34 C 9" and "1121" (corrected from 512) were given at a later date and are still in... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861873
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49146/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
