The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 51

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9831

Shelfmark:

mssHM 51

Title:

Bible

Place:

England?

England TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + i + xii + 378 + i + iii : parchment ; 173 x 242 mm

Former Owner(s):

Brooks, Edmund D. 1866-1919

Edmund D. Brooks WIKIDATA

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: According to the division of scribal hands: i, 2 columns of 48 lines, written below top line, ruled in ink (added s. XIV); ii: 2 columns of 53 lines, written above top line, ruled in lead; iii, 2 columns of 48 lines, written below top line, ruled in lead or crayon (added s. XIII2); iv, 2 columns of 47 lines, written below top line, ruled in ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-378v.
Some of the texts copied in the first added section (ff. i-xii verso) suggest ownership (if not origin?) in France.
Assigned Date: s. XIII1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012.
Written in England (?) during the first half of the thirteenth century. Rubrics for the readings at mass ("ad usum morinensem," "secundum usum morinensis diocesis"), as well as the saints occurring on ff. i-xii verso show that at least by the time of this addition, s. XIV, the book was being used in the diocese of Thérouanne in northern France. Belonged to the Minneapolis bookseller and...

Keyword:

Cathedral bindings

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862062

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50778/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens