The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 126

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9866

Shelfmark:

mssHM 126

Title:

Chronicle

Author:

Robert, of Gloucester, active 1260-1300

Robert of Gloucester WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 136 : parchment ; 182 x 271 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: 1-178 184(-3; flyleaves). Catchwords in frames; 40 lines of verse, ruled in lead with double lines on the left margin for the versals.
Span folios: ff. 1-136v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 7-line, pink/blue infilled with vines and leaves on a gold ground from which extends a C-shaped bar and foliage border in gold, blue and pink. On ff. 21v and 52v, 5- and 6-line respectively, parted red and blue initials with void leaf infilling and flourished extensions.
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012.
Possession notes: f. 136, birth notices of members of the Wombwell family, 1550-1621; back flyleaf i, s. XVI, "Your Loueing Harlow of Rochester" and "Edward Harlowe"; the same person added on back flyleaf iii, "By your Loueing and assured Edward harlowe Anno domini 1576"; also on back flyleaf i, s. XVI, "Thomas Anderson" and "Thomas Bannester"; back flyleaf ii, s. XVI, "Allaxander Gatton...

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862097

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49770/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens