The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25776

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9842

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25776

Title:

Latin Bible

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 539 (+ 3 ff. bis; 309 skipped) : parchment ; 116 x 161 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Latin Bible, in in the order of London, Lambeth Palace, MS 1364 (as described by Ker, MMBL, 1:96-97), but here including the prayer of Solomon after Ecclesiaticus; Daniel ending at 14, 41; and 63 prologues. Written in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-539v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112(+ f. 5, an added singleton; should be bound after f. 9) 2-916 10-1218 13-1516 1612 1712(-4, 5, 6; through f. 262, end of Psalms; last column with only 5 lines of text) 18-2420 2518 2622 2718 2822 2918 3022 3118(-18). Catchwords or evidence of catchwords visible only in beginning of book in a noting hand in the inner right margin. 2...
Decoration: Historiated initial with a picture of Jerome seated and gesturing on f. 1. Painted initials with extensions in the margins in white-patterned beige, brown, blue, grey, ochre, dark orange and olive green, usually as stylized, fleshy leaves, but occasionally also including animal heads. Initials through f. 262v, 10- to 6-line for the books and 7- or 6-line for the prologues, followed...
The three numbers used twice in the foliation are ff. 145, 146, 303 bis; in the numbering, "309"was skipped.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
Acquired by Mrs. Mary W. T. Dickinson from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862073

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52399/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens