The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 124

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9864

Shelfmark:

mssHM 124

Title:

Speculum Christiani

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: f. iii + 78 + iii : parchment ; 117 x 170 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-98 106. Catchwords, some in brown or red ink frames; 21 long lines, ruled in lead with top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-78v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 10-line letter I, in gold on green and pink cusped ground with sprays of colored kidney leaves, green tendrils and gold motifs (damaged). 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing; ladders on f. 45v for the ascent to Heaven or descent to Hell in red and in ink of the text.
By the same hand as London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052 and Add. 21202, also copies of the Speculum Christiani, and textually related to HM 124.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012.
Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by a scribe who produced 2 other known copies of this text. Ownership notes in the volume: ff. 33 and 68, s. XVI, "Willelmus"; ff. ii and 1, s. XVII-XVIII, "Sa. Rooper"; f. i, s. XVIII, "JGL." Erasure of possession note on f. iii verso. Sotheby's, 11 June 1923, lot 89A to Barnard. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington, ca. 1924, evidently...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862095

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51725/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens