The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 150

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9882

Shelfmark:

mssHM 150

Title:

Vox clamantis and other Latin poems

Author:

Gower, John, 1325?-1408

John Gower WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 194 : parchment ; 158 x 230 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871

Charles William Hamilton Sotheby WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Textura.
Layout: 14 2-258(first leaf of quire 1 and last leaf of quire 25 are stubs and appear to have been used as pastedowns); inner bifolium of quire 16 has been reversed, transposing ff. 119-120. Catchwords in center lower margin, enclosed in brown ink frames on quires 2-5, and in a blue and red ink frame on quire 22 (f. 171v). Quire 2, the first text quire, signed with a plus sign and roman...
Decoration: On f. 13v, a 3/4 page miniature, 135 x 105 mm., depicting Gower as an archer in aristocratic dress, shooting an arrow at the world, which is divided into sections representing water, earth and sky, and surmounted by a cross and banner; iconographically related to Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian T.2.17 (59), f. 6v; London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Tiberius A. iv, f. 9v; and Oxford...
Other Decoration: 5- and 4-line parted red and blue initials, infilled with leaf designs, with red, blue and pale olive flourishing on cascade borders; 3- and 2-line blue initials with red pen flourishing.
Acknowledgments: We thank Kathleen L. Scott for the iconographic information linking this manuscript with those in Glasgow, London and Oxford.
Assigned Date: s. XV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012.
Earl of Ailesbury sale, London, 21 November 1687, p. 85 n. 91 to James Sotheby, who signed his name on f. 4; also on f. 4 "I 4 2200[?]." Armorial bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby on the front pastedown, with the note "Bought at Lord Burgleys sale 1702 for L. 1-2." Col. H. G. Sotheby sale, Sotheby's, 24 July 1924, lot 96 with plate of f. 13v to A. S. W. Rosenbach for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Poems

manuscripts (documents)

Armorial bindings

Great Britain

Gower, John, 1325?-1408

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862113

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49749/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens