The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1249
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9720
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1249
- Title:
- Devotions
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 138 + i : parchment ; 85 x 117 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Chew, Beverly, 1850-1924
- Note:
- Devotions written in the Netherlands in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-138v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-58 68(-6, cancelled by scribe) 7-148 158(-7, cancelled by scribe) 16-178 196(-3, 6). Quires and leaves signed in letters of the alphabet and roman numerals. Ruled space, 70 x 47 mm; 17 long lines, ruled in ink with single bounding lines, the first and the last 2 horizontal rules full across. Text set between, not on, the lines. Pricking...
Decoration: Full page borders on ff. 1, 28, 80 of multicolored acanthus leaves, green foliage, colored flowers, black-rayed gold dots with animals or flowers in the borders. Full page borders on ff. 35 and 52 in painted gold with black flecks and scattered flowers. Large initials on cusped gold grounds with thistle infilling. Secondary initials, 4- or 3-line, in gold on a white-patterned blue...
The text has been carefully corrected; it once had a large number of fore edge tabs, topped by embroidered knots in red, green or blue, of which only 15 survive.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
The manuscript may have been copied for a nun, to judge by the use, though not exclusive, of feminine forms; note especially f. 125, the prayer to St. Augustine "intercede pro me peccatrice que sub specie monastice sanctitatis fallaciter vivo...". Belonged to the American banker, Beverly Chew, whose library was bought by Henry E. Huntington in 1912. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861948
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52869/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
