The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 127

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9868

Shelfmark:

mssHM 127

Title:

Prose and poetry in English

Prose

Poetry

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English and Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 62 : parchment ; 190 x 265 mm

Former Owner(s):

Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, 1583-1648

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 18(+1, f. 1) 2-78 86(-6). Catchwords in the lower right corner; quire and leaf signatures in red ink towards lower edge of right margin in letters and roman numerals. 32-33 long lines or lines of verse, ruled in lead; pricking visible in the outer margin.
Other Decoration: Three gold initials, 7- to 9-line, on ff. 2 and 34, infilled with void leaf designs in light purple and some red, and with light purple flourishing.
Assigned Date: s. XV1/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/10/2012.
Three sixteenth century owner's notes: f. i, "Ihon wyllyamson" and "This is Iohn Whyttes Boke/ whoo so euer on yt dothe louke/ he that fydyth yt and brynges yt agayne/ I wyll geyfe him xl d. for his payene" (R. Hanna, "The Index of Middle English Verse and Huntington Library Collections: a Checklist of Addenda," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 74 (1980) 235-58, here nn...

Keyword:

Poems

decorated initials

England

Fifteenth century

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862099

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens