The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1044

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9745

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1044

Title:

Martyrologium

Author:

Usuard, -876 or 887

Usuard WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + i + 132 (+117 bis) + i : parchment ; 159 x 223 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: Collation beginning with f. ii: 1-410 510(-6) 610(+11, f. 117 bis, a half sheet) 710 810(-4) 910(-1, 7) 1010 11-148. Catchwords in lower right margin in the script of the text; additional catchwords in the script of the text on a few internal leaves of quires 4 and 5; catchwords in a faint noting hand in the lower right margin of the recto and verso of many leaves; first 4 leaves of...
Other Decoration: Plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials in text and dominical letters in outer margins slashed in red; rubrics and paragraph marks in red; small sketches of profile faces on ff. 6v and 44.
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written in the second half of the fifteenth century in Germany for the Carmelite house near Heilbronn, whose chapel, dedicated to Sancta Maria ad Urticas (from a vision of a peasant women, who saw an image of the Virgin overgrown with nettles), was founded in 1447 and dedicated in 1458. During the Thirty Years War the monastery was destroyed and its monks moved within the city walls. Owned ca...

Keyword:

martyrologies

manuscripts (documents)

Christian martyrs--Biography

Christian saints--Biography

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861973

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52063/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens