The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 132

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9873

Shelfmark:

mssHM 132

Title:

Polychronicon

Author:

Higden, Ranulf, -1364

Ranulf Higden WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Higden, Ranulf, -1364

Ranulf Higden WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1340 and 1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 309 : parchment ; 174 x 264 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

St. Werburgh's Abbey (Chester, England)

St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: i4(1 is pastedown) 114(-1, 10 through 13, ff. 9-12, replaced) 214(-10 and 11, f. 23, replaced) 3-712 812(-6 after f. 92) 9-2312 244(+ 2, f. 279 and + 4, f. 281) 2510(+ 1) 2610 276(6 is pastedown); catchwords in red frames. 33-38 long lines, frame ruled in lead, pricking in slash form at the 4 corners of the written space.
Decoration: On f. 4v, a colored, but rather faded oval map of the world with Jerusalem at the center, the ocean encircling the outer edge, and Adam and Eve at the top with the serpent in the tree; also at the top, 2 grotesque heads, possibly added, in the position of wind-heads. In the lower margin of f. 48, 2 elevations of the Ark, in red ink, according to Augustine and to "others."
Other Decoration: 4- to 1-line plain red initials; sources cited, including the author himself as "R," in red; red paragraph marks. From the beginning of quire 5, 2 vertical columns in the outer margins ruled in red ink for dates of the calendar and the regnal year.
Written by Ranulph Higden at St. Werburg, Chester, between 1299 and his death in 1363-64.
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/14/2012.
Belonged to the Benedictine house of St. Werburg's in Chester; Ker, MLGB, p. 50; bottom of f. 294, which may have contained an ex libris, is cut away. On f. 294v an erased valuation, s. XIV/XV, "10 l, xix s, iiii d." On f. 183, s. XV or later, "Ricardus abbas monasterii Sancte Werburge," referring to Richard Seynesbury, abbot 1349-63. On f. i, heavily cancelled, "Liber E__?___ Richford...

Keyword:

Maps

manuscripts (documents)

World history

Great Britain

Geography, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862104

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50907/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens