The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 57

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9854

Shelfmark:

mssHM 57

Title:

Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio

Author:

Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275

Raymond of Penyafort WIKIDATA

Artist:

Johannes Philomena atelier

Johannes Philomena Atelier WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1285 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 232 : parchment ; 145 x 213 mm

Former Owner(s):

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Winans, Ross, 1850-1912

Ross Winans WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-2310 242. Catchwords written horizontally in the inner margin; 2 columns of 26 lines, ruled in lead, with top, middle and bottom 2 lines full across; additional single rule across the width of the text space in the upper margin for running headlines; other single rules down the outer margin and full across the lower margin; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-232v.
Decoration: Three historiated initials, 6- or 5-line, in white-patterned blue or pink against a diapered ground of the other color; the background of the infilling, the narrow strip framing the initial, and decoration on the marginal extensions in burnished gold. Initial on f. 63 (Book 2, chapter De homicidio), a letter I, the length of the text in the shape of a grotesque, with a tiny, free...
The extensions composed of biting, dragon-like grotesques and small vegetable forms, are similar to those discussed in E. J. Beer, "Das Scriptorium des Johannes Philomena und seine Illuminatoren, zur Buchmalerei in der Region Arras-Cambrai, 1250 bis 1274," Scriptorium 23 (1969) 24-38 and pl. 7-13.
Assigned Date: s. XIIIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012.
Belonged to the Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841); his note, cut from the flyleaf of the previous binding, tipped in before f. 1; his sale, Evans, 19 February 1827, n. 2386 to Haswell. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from the Ross C. Winans collection, through G. D. Smith in January 1918.

Keyword:

historiated initials

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

Penance (Canon law)

Penitentials

Marriage (Canon law)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862085

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52060/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens