The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1069

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9832

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1069

Title:

Bible

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1240 and 1260

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 358 + i : parchment ; 157 x 240 mm

Former Owner(s):

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902

Benjamin Franklin Stevens WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-2610 27-288(through f. 276) 29-3510 368(-4, 6, 7, 8; plus one leaf each attached to stubs of 6 and 8; text is complete) 37-396(these 6 leaves blank). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin or the inside lower margin, trimmed except on quires 25-26 and 33-35. 2 columns of 60 lines ruled in lead with single bounding lines at the sides, triple bounding lines between the columns...
The scribe or artist Vivianus (Sanus?) of Cremona wrote his name and home town in gold letters in the margins next to the illuminations on ff. 1 and 3v.
Decoration: Eighty-six historiated or ornamented initials, 17- to 5-line, usually in shaded blue, green, orange or beige, infilled with historiation or stylized vegetation in the same colors, the whole set against stippled gold grounds, outlined in shaded green, sometimes with the letter itself or its extension formed of a biting animal.
Other Decoration: Initials for the prologues usually as a gold letter on a white-patterned blue and beige ground, 11- to 5-line. In Job, Psalms and Ecclesiastes (ff. 148-197v) and in the New Testament (ff. 277-350), 2-line initials alternating gold with blue flourishing and blue with red, and 1-line initials alternating blue and gold, except in Psalms, which alternates 1-line initials in blue...
Assigned Date: s. XIIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/6/2012.
On f. 3v, "Materiam superat opus excellens viviani/ Cuius facta probant mores in pectore sani." A 12-line erased inscription, s. XV(?), on f. 350v begins "Ista biblia est conventui Velletri..." In the W. F. Fowle sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 140 to Samuel Addington; his sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, lot 29 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 3 with a plate of...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862063

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52094/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens