The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 112

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DS ID:

DS9650

Shelfmark:

mssHM 112

Title:

Scale of perfection

Author:

Hilton, Walter, -1396

Walter Hilton WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + vi (watermarked 1824) + 78 + ii : parchment ; 130 x 191 mm

Former Owner(s):

Offor, George, 1787-1864

George Offor WIKIDATA

Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908

Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet WIKIDATA

Pery, John, canon of Holy Trinity Priory Aldgate

John Pery WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana with some secretary forms.
Layout: Pt. 1, ff. 1-12v; ruled space, 134 x 85 mm. in one quire of 12 leaves, signed on f. 6 "h vi" and on f. 12v "x." Pt. 2, ff. 13-78; ruled space, 147 x 85 mm.; collation (counting pt. 1, i.e. ff. 1-12 as quire 1): 2-48 58(-1, no loss of text) 6-98 103(all singletons). Catchwords in brown ink scrolls; quires and leaves signed in letters, a-i, and in roman numerals; quires numbered on the...
Span folios: ff. 1-78v.
Other Decoration: 4-, 3- and 2-line initials done in both pts. by the same flourisher, in blue with red penwork; the opening initial, f. 4, 6-line, in parted red and blue infilled with void leaf designs and flourished in red; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; paragraph marks usually in red only (a few in blue).
HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century, probably as an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. Numerous corrections and insertions in more than one hand (one probably Pery's).
Assigned Date: s. XV1.
HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century: the matching page dimensions suggest that the second was an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. HM 112 itself was the second part of...
Inputter: C. W. Dutschke, 9/4/2009.
The 3 manuscripts, Add. 10052, HM 112 and Add. 10053 were still a single volume when seen and noted by Bernard, vol. 2, n. 6593 in the collection of Charles Theyer (b. 1651), who had inherited from his grandfather, the antiquary John Theyer (1597-1673) a collection of manuscripts originating in the library of Llanthony priory bequeathed to John Theyer by his uncle Richard Hart, last prior of...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861875

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49427/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens