The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 627

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9895

Shelfmark:

mssHM 627

Title:

Miscellany of patristic literature

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1140 and 1160

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 155 : parchment ; 110 x 180 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Aulne Abbey

Aulne Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Compilation of patristic literature.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Pregothic.
Layout: 18(-1) 2-58 66 78(through f. 53) 3 (?) quires missing here 8-198 208(-4, 5 with loss of text). Catchword survives in the gutter of f. 15v, as well as the quire signature in the center lower margin, "iius"; one other quire signature, "xii," on f. 69v for what is now quire 9. 30-44 long lines; no ruling visible but prick marks along outer margin.
Other Decoration: Red initials, 5- and 4-line, with void designs on the initial itself and with leafy tendrils, e.g. ff. lv, 86, 107v, 121v.
Although assigned here to England, it is possible that the manuscript was copied in the Netherlands. Copied by several scribes; the text on ff. 121v-155, is possibly somewhat later. On f. 1, added note of 38 lines in a very small, nearly illegible hand on the assumption of the Virgin. Also on f. 1, 4 verses, "Nunc quoque christe pie cui claustra pudica marie/Pervia manserunt miroquo modo...
Assigned Date: s. XIImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/27/2012.
Written in the Netherlands, or possibly in England, towards the middle of the twelfth century; ff. 121v-155 may be somewhat later. Belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Aulne in the diocese of Liège. For the 1632 Aulne catalogue, see A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta (Lille 1641-43/44; repr. London 1967 and in Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, n. special 7, Brussels 1972...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Christian literature, Early

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862127

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49760/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens