The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 149

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DS ID:

DS9881

Shelfmark:

mssHM 149

Title:

Here bygynneth þe proheme of þe boke þat men cleped þe mirrour of þe blessede lyfe of oure lord Ihesu criste et cetera

Author:

Love, Nicholas, active 1410

Nicholas Love WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Thomas Ad

Thomas Ad WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 108 : parchment ; 170 x 259 mm

Note:

Title from rubricated first line of text.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-138 146(-5, 6). Catchwords in red or brown ink frames, most wholly or partly trimmed away. 37-42 long lines, ruled in ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-108v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 3-line, in red; 2-line initials, slashed initials in the text, quotations, rubrics, marginal finding notes, paragraph marks and running headlines all in red.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Cutschke, 7/16/2012.
Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by "Thomas Ad." Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps ca. 1820; Phillipps MS 282 and his Middle Hill stamp on the front pastedown; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 1919, lot 820 to Edwards. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1924.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Jesus Christ

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862112

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49103/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens