The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 27187

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9654

Shelfmark:

mssHM 27187

Title:

Collection of theological works by Robert Holcot, William Woodford, Franciscus de Mayronis and others

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1340 and 1415

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 182 : parchment ; 184 x 260 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Composite volume written in England; the first part (Robert Holcot's Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi) in the fourteenth century, the second (works by William Woodford, Augustine and Franciscus de Mayronis) at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Part 1. Span folios: ff. 2-119. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112(-1) 2-1012. Catchwords in lightly sketched frames in the shape of fish, mice or grotesques. Ruled space, 220 x 130 mm; 2 columns of 47 lines ruled in lead with an additional double rule in all 4 margins. Written in a deteriorating littera textualis. Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals, [1]-119.
Part 1. Decoration: The remaining lower inner corner of f. 1 shows decoration on the opening page to have consisted of a bar border of colored segments and trefoil leaves. Alternating red and blue 3-line initials with flourishing of the other color; letters of the running headlines and paragraph marks alternating red and blue. Side notes in the hand of the scribe enclosed in the same pen...
Part 2. Span folios: ff. 120-182v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-58 66(through f. 165) 78 88(-7, 8) 9 (composed of 3 singletons?). Catchwords in the script of the text in the right lower margin. Leaf signatures usually i-iiii, but as ai-aiiii on ff. 166-169. Ruled space, 198 x 125 mm; 43-47 long lines, frame ruled in crayon; pricking in the outer margins of the conjunct leaves, ff. 120 and...
Part 2. Decoration: Opening initial, f. 120, 5-line, in gold on a particolored blue and pink ground with trailing floral spray of blue, orange and tan spoon leaves and green tendrils, across the inner and upper margins. 3-line blue initials with red flourishing; red paragraph marks.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/6/2009.
The 2 parts were together when owned by Robert Rede, O.P., bishop of Chichester (1396-1415): on f. i verso, "Liber magistri Roberti Reede Episcopi Cicestrensis in quo continentur lectura holcote super iiiior libri sententiarum in parte cum tabula eiusdem cum tractatu valde bono magistri W. Whydeford edito contra hereticas opiniones et erroneas positas per magistrum I. Wyclyff." Rede bequeathed...

Keyword:

miscellanies

manuscripts (documents)

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861879

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51779/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens