The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 452
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9889
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 452
- Title:
- Misogonus
- Author:
- Johnson, Laurence, active 1577
- Scribe:
- Rychardes, Thomas
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1577?
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 24 : paper ; 185 x 293 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Secretary.
Layout: Leaves now individually inlaid; paired presence and absence of watermarks would suggest an original single gathering of 24 leaves, except that the proposed center bifolium, ff. 12-13, lacks a watermark.
Watermark(s): Pot similar to Briquet 12701, Auquainville 1573.
Manuscript badly damaged on the edges; now inlaid.
Assigned Date: s. XVI4/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/27/2012.
Written in England by 20 November 1577 (date on f. 1), possibly for performance at Trinity College, Cambridge (see G. C. Moore Smith, Times Literary Supplement, 10 July 1930, p. 576). The corrector, "Laurentius Bariωna," may also be the author. Other names in the manuscript, besides that of the copyist (?) "Thomas Rychardes," are: on f. 1, "Anthony Rudd" (1549?-1615), bishop of St. David's... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862121
- Holding Institution:
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