The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1075
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9838
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1075
- Title:
- Bible
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Date:
- between 1240 and 1260
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: volumes I: ff. 316; volumes II: ff. 394 : parchment ; 142 x 221 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lee, John, 1783-1866
Park Abbey (Louvain, Belgium)
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: Vol. I: 1-2612 276(-5, 6) Vol. II: 1-312(through f. 36) 4-612 7-914 10-2012 2114(through f. 260) 22-2512 2614 27-3212. Catchwords in a small noting hand in the inside lower margin. 2 columns of 40 lines (except vol. II, ff. 261-281 in 40 long lines). Ruled in lead with the top and bottom 2 lines full across, as usually are the 16th, 17th, 24th and 25th lines; additional double rule in...
Other Decoration: Parted red and blue initials with flourishing in both colors, 10- to 5-line for the books of the bible, and 4- or 3-line for the prologues. In vol. I, 1-line initials alternating red and blue for the chapters; in vol. II, 2-line initials alternating red and blue with flourishing of the other color for the chapters. In vol. II, ff. 37-53v (Prov. and Ecclesiastes, quires 4-5...
Assigned Date: s. XIIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
Belonged to the Premonstratensian abbey of Parc near Louvain at least by the fourteenth century, when a note of ownership was inscribed in vol. I, f. 316, "Explicit liber sancte marie de parcho." Not identified in the inventory of Parc books complied by the abbot Jean Maes in 1635-36 for publication in A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta (Lille 1641-43/44; rep. London 1967 and... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862069
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50834/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
