The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 137

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9877

Shelfmark:

mssHM 137

Title:

Piers Plowman

Author:

Langland, William, 1330?-1400

William Langland WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Dankastre, Thomas

Thomas Dankastre WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1390 and 1410

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 89 : parchment ; 185 x 286 mm

Former Owner(s):

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-108 118(+9). Catchwords, some in brown ink frames; quire and leaf signatures visible in first quire only, as letter and roman numeral. 43 lines of verse ruled in ink, with top and bottom 2 lines (up to f. 32v), then top and bottom 3 lines full across. Pricking occassionally visible in outer margin.
Other Decoration: Three-line initials in blue with red flourishing; spaces reserved for the initials from the eighth quire on. 1-line blue initials with red flourishing begin some of the Latin quotations and the rubrics up to f. 17. Elongated ascenders in the top line daubed with red through the fifth quire. The first letter of each line daubed with red through f. 36, and intermittently...
The copyist, Thomas Dankastre, signed his name in the colophon on f. 89v. Also on f. 89v, marginalia in several later hands: s. XV, "Omnibus est notum quod multum diligo potum Secundum y W"; s. XV, "Finito libro reddatur gloria cristo Amen"; s. XVI ineunte, "Johannes Meade me possedet pretii iii s iii d." In the upper margin of f. 1, a sixteenth or seventeenth century hand has written: "Homo...
Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
"John Meade" owned the book in the early sixteenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it belonged to Sir Robert Smyth, Baronet, of Isfield, Sussex whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 319); his sale, Sotheby's, 10 April 1809, lot 893 to Richard Heber (1773-1833). Heber's price annotations are written on Smyth's bookplate; notes regarding the...

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862108

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50599/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens