The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 35 B 61

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9815

Shelfmark:

mssEL 35 B 61

Title:

Modus coronationis ; Modus tenendi parliamentum ; and two other works

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + i + i + 32 + i + i : parchment ; 182 x 252 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bastard secretary; Secretary; Calligraphic.
Span folios: ff. 1-32v.
Other Decoration: Opening initials on ff. 1 and 12, respectively of 8 and 6 lines in highlighted pink and blue on gold grounds infilled with leaves and vine, with full bar and foliage borders of considerable width in the same colors; blank spaces reserved in the lower margins for an eventual owner's shield. 1-line initials alternating blue with red flourishing or gold with black.
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
The two main late 15th-century texts are accompanied by two mid 16th-century additions, one dating from the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) and one from that of Elizabeth I (1558-1603).
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012.
On f. ii, the pressmark "A:5." in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater, corrected to "A:5./7." by the second Earl (1622-86). The current Bridgewater pressmark and the bookplate of that Library on the front pastedown.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

England. Parliament

Processions

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603

Homage (Feudal law)

Oaths

Coronations

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862046

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51714/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens