The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 34807
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9844
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 34807
- Title:
- Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica and Peter of Poitiers' Historia actuum apostolorum
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1299
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. i + 278 + i : parchment ; 126 x 174 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica and Peter, of Poitiers' Historia actuum apostolorum written in England in the second half of the thirteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-278v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-1112 128(-5, 6, 7; through f. 137) 13-1712(through f. 197) 186 19-2412 254(-4). Catchword on f. 137v, in the inner corner, cropped. 2 columns of 40 lines, some columns divided into 2 narrower columns (e.g. on ff. 98v, 100); ruled in lead; double bounding lines. Written in an English book hand.
Decoration: Opening initial, 6-line, parted red and blue with filigree infilling around 4 blue rosettes, with red and blue cascade and flourishing to frame the inner and upper margins. Blue initials, 2-line, with red and blue cascade or red flourishing. Paragraph marks alternating in red and blue. Running headlines in red and blue.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
On f. i verso, written in pale red ink in a mid-sixteenth or seventeenth century legal anglicana script, probably in explanation of the name "Radulphus" on f. 278v: "This booke appears to have been examined by Radulph de Baldock, Deane of Saint Paule 1297." Ralph de Baldock, bishop of London, 1306-13, and chancellor of England, 1307, owned a number of books: Emden, BRUO, 2147-49 prints the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862075
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51771/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
