The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 19914
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9652
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 19914
- Title:
- Collection of pastoral works
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1240 and 1360
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 334 : parchment ; 135 x 180 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Davies, Robert, -1710
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Composite volume in four parts written in England in the middle of the thirteenth century, containing: 1) parchment flyleaves from a mid-14th century text containing motets and part of a Kyrie; 2) Michael de Meaux's Compilacio super psalterium; 3) several theological and pastoral works; 4) Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job.
Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Leaves dating to mid-14th century functioning here as flyleaves. Music: polyphonic notation on red 5-line staves.
Part 2. Span folios: ff. 3-114v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-88 910(through f. 76) 10-138 148(-7, 8). Quires signed in roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf, 1-9 and then 1-4. Ruled space: 140 x 83 mm. 28-30 long lines, ruled in brown crayon with double bounding lines; written above top line. Written in a littera textualis.
Part 2. Decoration: Major initials, ff. 3, 3v and 77, 3-line, light blue patterned in white or red patterned in light blue, both with leaf infilling in red touched with a light green wash; the initial on f. 3 enclosed in a square red frame with a leaf extension the length of the text; slashed initials within the text, underlining, paragraph marks and rubrics in red; running headlines numbering...
Part 3. Span folios: ff. 115-228v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16(+7) 28 38(+8, a half leaf, f. 137) 48 58(+5, a half leaf, f. 151) 6-138 1410(-10). Ruled space: 147 x 110 mm. In 2 columns of 40-43 lines, ruled in brown crayon with double bounding lines; written above top line. Written in littera textualis by 2 people: i, ff. 115-226v, except for ff. 137 and 151, additions, each by a different...
Part 3. Decoration: Initials, 4- to 1-line, placed outside the written space, the first in parted red and blue with stylized acanthus extension and flourishing; the others in combinations of pale blue, red or green; slashed initials in the text, paragraph marks, chapter numbers, underlining, rubrics and running headlines, all in red. On ff. 204-205, pouncing or pricking in lower margins.
Part 4. Span folios: ff. 229-334v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18(+1, f. 229) 28 38(+8; the ninth leaf, between ff. 253-254, has been almost entirely cut away) 4-128 138(+9). Ruled space: 155 x 120 mm. In 2 columns of 35-36 lines, ruled in lead, with a center line between the columns and a double line in the far left margin; pricking visible in the inner margin.; written above top line...
Part 4. Opening initial, 3-line, green with red leaf-pattern infilling, and rubric in alternating lines of red and green; secondary initials set into the written space, 3- and 2-line, in plain red or green; tinted initials in the text, rubrics and running headlines in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/5/2009.
Although the 1959 Sotheby catalogue suggests that the manuscript may have belonged to the Augustinians of St. Osyth near Colchester because of the invocations of St. Osyth on ff. 184 and 200 (and possibly in the erasures on ff. 229, 334), there is no formal evidence to this effect. The manuscript was almost certainly in an institutional library in the fifteenth century, since below the rubric... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861877
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51519/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
