The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 121

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9863

Shelfmark:

mssHM 121

Title:

Mirroure of myserie /

Mirroure of myserie

Author:

Huggarde, Miles

Miles Huggarde WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1557

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. iii + 26 + iii : parchment ; 135 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Pearson, Thomas, 1740-1781

Thomas Pearson WIKIDATA

Corser, Thomas, 1793-1876

Thomas Corser WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title and statement of responsibility from frontispiece.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Textura; Humanistic.
Layout: 14(-1) 26 3-44 56 64(-4). Prologue in 3 4-line stanzas per page; text and dedication in 3 7-line stanzas per page; ruled in lead.
Decoration: Pen and ink frontispiece of a crowned lion and a dragon supporting the arms of England and France quarterly, with a full foliage border of fleur-de-lis (France) and Tudor roses (England, i.e. Mary) in the outer margin, and pomegranates (Granada, i.e. Philip) and gillyflowers (?) in the inner border; the pomegranate and rose, impaled, hang as a pendant from the upper border, and a...
Other Decoration: Large calligraphic strapwork or foliage initials on ff. 2, 4 and 6.
Assigned Date: s. XVImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012.
The text is intended as a New Year's gift to Queen Mary (f. 2v, "As a token that the new yeare doth begyn/ I presente to your grace..."); HM 121 could possibly be the presentation copy; no other copy, printed or manuscript, is known to exist. De Ricci, referring to the initials R. T. on the frontispiece, has suggested that HM 121 might be a transcript of an edition printed by Richard Tottell...

Keyword:

Poems

illuminations (paintings)

England

Sixteenth century

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

Christian life

Poetry

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862094

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens