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 /
- Huggarde, Miles
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1557
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. iii + 26 + iii : parchment ; 135 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Pearson, Thomas, 1740-1781
Corser, Thomas, 1793-1876
Huth, Henry, 1815-1878
Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862094
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53019/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
