The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1121

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9685

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1121

Title:

Hymnal for vespers

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna

Bologna TGN

Date:

16th century

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 29 + i : parchment ; 318 x 467 mm

Note:

Hymnal for vespers written in the sixteenth century for use in Bologna, as evidenced by the devotions to Petronius.
Span folios: ff. 1-29v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16(-6, with no loss of text) 2-74. Ruled space, 348 x 244 mm; 17 long lines, but up to 21 on ff. 5-6, due to rewritten text; cf. erasures in the same area. Ruled in lead; slash pricking along the left and right bounding lines; additional pricking the upper and lower outside corners of the leaves (to mark the size of the leaf?). Written in a...
Decoration: On f. 2v, 6-line historiated initial of the Nativity, possibly repainted. On f. 21, 4-line historiated initial of Stephen (but at hymn for the common of a martyr) with small floral spray in the upper margin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
On the front pastedown, a small square paper label with a red "6" stamped on it; in pencil "64. Orazioni." Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

hymns

historiated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Hymns, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861911

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:47984/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens