The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1078

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9755

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1078

Title:

Pontifical

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 214 + ii : parchment ; 245 x 330 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1- 268 276. Catchwords in the lower right corner; quire and leaf signatures apparently in roman numerals with a suprascript letter (cf. ff. 108, 124, 131). Ruled space, 214 x 154 mm; 2 columns of 27 lines, ruled in lead.
Music: Music on 4-line staves.
Decoration: Eighty-eight historiated initials by two artists, 6- to 4-line. For the work of the second artist, the last 18 initials, lightly written instructions remain visible in the margins.
Offset outlines of the miniature frames and marginal extensions often impressed upon conjunct leaves showing that the painting was done on loose bifolia.
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written in the late fourteenth century, perhaps in southern France. The coat of arms in the lower margin of f. 1 is of the bishopric of Tarazona: 1 and 4, vert a cross moline or voided gules; 2 and 3, or three bars gules, supported by 2 angels. The bishop who first owned the book may have been Pedro Perez Calvillo, Bishop of Tarazona, 1352-91, or his brother, Fernando, Bishop of Tarazona...

Keyword:

pontificals

manuscripts (documents)

musical notation

historiated initials

coats of arms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861983

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52271/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens