The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 58
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9855
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 58
- Title:
- Agnus castus with additional medical recipes
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1485 and 1499
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 95 : parchment ; 145 x 200 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
The main text of the Agnus castus is agumented by contemporary and later scribes. An additional group of medical recipes and charms in various hands follows.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana; Textura.
Layout: 18 26(-1) 38(+6, f. 19) 4-58 68(-3 through 6 after f. 40) 78 8-910 10-118 128(-5) 132. 26-37 long lines on ff. 1-40v; 25-27 long lines on ff. 43-95v; ruled in ink, the top and bottom 1 or 2 lines usually full across; pricking often remaining in the 3 outer margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-95v.
Errors cancelled in red, omitted material added in the margins in red (e.g. ff. 1, 49), "probatum" or "prohibitum" notes in the margins in red, and the corrector's (i.e. the scribe's?) note "cor." in red at the end of quires 2 (f. 13v), 6 (f. 42v) and 7 (f. 50v).
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012.
Among the pentrials: s. XVI: f. 24, "...noverint universi per presentes nos Iohannes ashington in Comitatu Devon. yeoman teneri et firmeter obligari Iohan__cancelled___ de __cancelled___ ne in Comitatu predicto"; f. 28v, possibly in the same hand, "Iohannes de G.R.A."; s. XVII: f. 68v, "John Penrose"; on the leather turn-ins of the front cover, "George Pyne" and "Frances Pyne"; f. 41v, the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862086
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52593/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
