The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 503
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9892
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 503
- Title:
- The clergy may not hold property
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1415
- Language:
- Middle English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 129 : parchment ; 95 x 129 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cope, Anthony, Sir, 1842-1932
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Ascribed to John Wycliffe on basis of style and content.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Textura quadrata.
Layout: 1-88 98(-8) 108 118(-1) 128(-4, 5, 8) 13-158 168(-2) 178(-8). Catchwords in lower right margin; quire and leaf signatures in letters ("+" and a-q) and roman numerals. 21 long lines, ruled in ink, top and bottom 2 lines full across; prick marks occasionally visible in the 3 outer margins.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, 4-line, in blue infilled with a void flower (?) on a pink (?) ground, quite rubbed, the whole set on a gold ground with floral spray border of blue and pink leaves and green tendrils. Latin passages in red; chapter numbers and authorites in red; blue paragraph marks, with the first letter of the following word daubed with red.
Assigned Date: s. XVin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/27/2012.
Written in England in the early fifteenth century, in the same format and possibly of the same origin as Egerton 2820 and Dd.14.30(2); London, Lambeth Palace 551, printed by Matthew, is also of similar size and format. On f. 129, s. XVIin, "The vycar of Byllyngshurst [Sussex] whiche is of goode & vertuos of his lyvyng owyth this lytyll boke." Armorial bookplate of Sir John Cope (d. 1721) on... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862124
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49411/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
