The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 115

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9861

Shelfmark:

mssHM 115

Title:

The nativite of oure lady

Author:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451

John Lydgate WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 112 : parchment ; 150 x 220 mm

Note:

Title from f. 3v.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-912 and 4 leaves, all singletons, the first contemporary and the remaining 3 modern. Catchwords in scrolls; 24-28 long lines, frame rule in lead.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 2v, 3-line, and opening initial for Book 3, f. 52, 2-line, in white-highlighted pink on a gold ground, infilled with colored leaves; spray in the margin of self-shaded colored leaves and light brown feathering with scattered colored leaves, small green bud-leaves and gold motifs (barbs and double crosses). 2-line initials in gold on white-patterned...
Written by the same scribe as Cambridge, St. John's College, N. 16 and N. 17; Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard, Richardson 44, and Oxford, Bod. Lib., Bodley 549 (SC 2298), ff. 77v-79. Corrections in the margins by the scribe (e.g. ff. 12, 43, 63v) and perhaps in another contemporary hand (e.g. ff. 26, 31, 46); IHC monogram in the upper margin of f. 1 between 8-shaped flourishes. Tipped into the...
Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/8/2012.
The Harvard manuscript (Cambridge MA, Harvard, Houghton Library, Richardson 44: Life of St. Catherine), the 2 St. John's manuscripts (Cambridge, St. John's College, N. 16 and N. 17: Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome) and HM 115 may have been bound together in one volume: they share the same scribe and same dimensions, and were sold together as lot 3597 in the sale of...

Keyword:

Poems

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862092

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49532/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens