The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 9 H 11
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9804
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 9 H 11
- Title:
- Prisciani grammatici viri disertissimi apocrisarii cesariensis urbis Rome constantinopolitane liber primus de arte grammatica incipit
- Priscian, active approximately 500-530
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1125 and 1150
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 197 + ii : parchment ; 173 x 262 mm
- Note:
- Support: Parchment.
Layout: 1-248 254(+5), with quires 6 and 7, respectively ff. 41-48 and 49-56, reversed in binding. Catchwords in lead in a noting hand placed close to inner margin on ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 56v. 33 long lines, ruled in dry point on the hair side through quire 18 (f. 144), thereafter in lead; most folios with double ruling to contain minims; double bounding lines; pricking visible in upper and...
Span folios: ff. 1-197v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 11-line, in gold and blue with infilling of green and ochre foliage and some use of red and blue, especially as decoration on scattered gold roundels.
Contemporary and thirteenth century marginalia, cropped; on f. 94v, in a fifteenth century hand: "anglice a stere of a shyppe."
Assigned Date: s. XII2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
On f. 1, the price "3 s. 4 d." On f. ii, the cancelled pressmark "N.5" in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater; also on f. ii, "W:4./5." in the hand of the second Earl (1622-86), and on f. 1, his signature as J[ohn Egerton, Viscount] Brackley, presumably inscribed before his father's death in 1649. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862035
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49275/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
