The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 9 H 4

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9801

Shelfmark:

mssEL 9 H 4

Title:

Bible

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 384 + ii : parchment ; 210 x 300 mm

Note:

Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 112(+1, contemporary flyleaf included in foliation) 2-1412 156(through f. 175, end of the Psalms) 16-2912 308(through f. 351) 31-3212 388(+1, contemporary flyleaf included in foliation). 2 columns of 53 lines, ruled in lead with top, middle and bottom 3 lines full across, triple rules between the columns, and an additional set of narrow double rules in all 4 margins. Pricking in the...
Span folios: ff. 1-384v.
Other Decoration: Painted initials, 8- to 6-line, and the length of the text for the Genesis initial I, in white-patterned orange on a blue ground or in blue on a beige ground, infilled with animal or vine swirls, e.g. ff. 4v (Genesis), 106 (4 Reg.), 115v (1 Par.), 144 (Judith), 265v (Zech.). Running headlines across the opening and chapter numbers in roman numerals alternating red and blue...
Assigned Date: s. XIII2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
Names on the blank leaves at the end include, on f. 383v: Abbas elstane terram dono tibi plane quam dum vivebat virgo mildreda tenebat (s. XV); Dompnus Robertus wynstanley sacerdos est meus possessor (s. XV/XVI); on f. 384v: henricus byntun, Thomas Unbrege, Iohannis stokys of fordenyche gentylman of decoler, Iohannes Frouike of londun marchate of debanker (all s. XV). On f. 1v, Pe. [S?]anwood...

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862032

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50772/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens