The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 9 H 3
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9800
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 9 H 3
- Title:
- Summa summarum
- William, of Pagula, approximately 1290-1332
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1340 and 1360
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 404 + ii : parchment ; 253 x 365 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ashridge Priory
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: 1-2212 2310(Book 4 ends at f. 273v; f. 274r-v, ruled but blank) 24-2512 2612(-4) 27-3312 3412(-11). Catchwords written horizontally in inner right corner in undecorated ink frames; 2 columns of 60 lines, ruled in lead with single bounding lines; pricking visible in upper and lower margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-404v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 6-line, in dusky rose against a white-patterned blue ground with infilling in gold and trilobe leaves, with a U-shaped bar border composed of sections of rose, blue or gold, with sprigs of ivy and daisy buds; the outer and lower bars terminate in grotesques: a hooded man and an ape (?).
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
Dry point notes on f. 274v include the name of Thomas Waterhouse, rector at Ashridge when it was dissolved in 1539. See Ker, MLGB, 5 (tentatively ascribing this manuscript to Ashridge); H. C. Schulz, "The Monastic Library and Scriptorium at Ashridge," HLQ 1 (1938) 305-11, and provenance of EL 7 H 8. On f. 1, the inscription "ex dono Richardi Combe Armigeri" (nephew of Thomas Waterhouse) in the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862031
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52098/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
