The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 34 A 8
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9809
- Shelfmark:
- mssEL 34 A 8
- Title:
- Statutes primarily from the reigns of Henry III and Edward I
- England
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1340 and 1360
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. ii + 169 + ii : parchment ; 86 x 130 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 12(contemporary flyleaves included in the foliation) 210(+10) 36(calendar) 48 56 6-228; the 3 center bifolia of quire 20 (ff. 155-160) and the center bifolium of quire 21 (ff. 165-166) reversed in binding. Catchwords in inner lower margin, usually set off by red or blue paragraph marks. 24 long lines, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines for the written space and with...
Span folios: ff. 1-169v.
Decoration: On f. 13v, full page miniature of the Crucifixion with Mary and John the Evangelist.
Other Decoration: 12- to 9-line white-patterned blue or pink initials set on grounds of the other color, infilled with trilobe leaves and grotesques in orange, green, pink and blue on gold grounds, with cusped U-shaped extensions in the margins in the same colors, also including grotesques.
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012.
The material on f. 2v suggests early ownership in Staffordshire. On f. 149, three armorial shields: the first, of England: gules, 3 lions passant gardant or; the second, of Spencer: quarterly argent and gules, 2 and 3 fret or, overall a bend sable; the third, of Garland of Lincolnshire (?): gules, 2 bars or, in chief 3 bezants. On f. 1v, ca. 1500, "Robert Bulkeley." On f. 3, pressmarks in the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862040
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50954/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
