The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssBA 33
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9846
- Shelfmark:
- mssBA 33
- Title:
- Cartulary of Battle Abbey
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1325
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 43 : parchment ; 165 x 239 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Littera textualis formata.
Layout: 1-212(material lacking? catchword does not match) 312 48(-5). Catchwords (none on quire 3); 2 columns of 31 lines, ruled in ink, double external bounding lines; prickings visible, 2 sets on quire 1. Foliated with letters of the alphabet: quires 1-2 = a-z, tironian seven; quires 3-4 = a-q, on upper right.
Span folios: ff. 1-43v.
Other Decoration: Carefully made decoration, left incomplete in the latter portions of the book and suffering from water damage throughout; cusped and parted bars in magenta, blue, and orange, framing the text, terminating in green leaves and finely-drawn heads of monks and grotesques with human heads, with some use of gold ground and white penwork; incomplete initials (pen outlines only) on...
Datable to ca. 1307-1327 in response to the quo warranto proceedings; the latest judgment is dated 25 July 1322 (f. 42).
Assigned Date: s. XIV1/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012.
Compiled at Battle Abbey in response to the quo warranto proceedings during the administration of Henry of Rye, steward 1307-ca. 1327. Regarding the history of the Battle Abbey muniments through the Browne and Webster families, see the description of BA 29. Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 9931 (label on spine, number on f. i verso and bottom of f. 1). Formerly bound as ff. 1-46 of BA 29. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862077
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52776/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
