The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 502

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9891

Shelfmark:

mssHM 502

Title:

Devotional miscellany

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 90 : parchment ; 150 x 145 mm

Former Owner(s):

Greene, Richard, 1716-1793

Richard Greene WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Textura semi-quadrata.
Layout: 112(-4 and 9, after ff. 3 and 7) 2-38 (quire "d" missing here) 4-118. Catchwords in frames in lower right of page; quire and leaf signatures in letters (a-c and e-m) and roman numerals. 20-23 long lines, ruled in ink; pricking occasionally visible in the outer margin.
Span folios: ff. 1-90v.
Other Decoration: 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; rubrics and paragraph marks in red; "Ihesus, Maria, Iohannes" in red in the upper margins of a few leaves.
Assigned Date: s. XV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/27/2012.
Numerous notes and pentrials, usually upside down in the lower margin, including on f. 56 "John baker owe this boke wytnes John fuller Edmund baker damyd"; John Baker's name also appears on ff. 33, 41v, 48v, 52v, 53v, 57v. Owned, s. XVI, by John Wood, whose name is on ff. 34v, 86. On f. 59, s. XVII, "Joseph Beeston"; on f. 31v, s. XVIII, "Edwd. Beeston." According to a pencil note on the front...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862123

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49132/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens