The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 901

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9901

Shelfmark:

mssHM 901

Title:

Prima pars de ymittacione christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi et cetera

Author:

Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471

Thomas à Kempis WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 58 : paper ; 222 x 307 mm

Note:

Title from Digital Scriptorium description.
Support: Paper.
Script: Cursive.
Layout: 1-412 512(-11, 12). Catchwords in inner right corner; leaves signed in arabic numerals in upper right hand corner of the recto. 2 columns of 32-34 lines; quire 1 ruled in ink, frame only; quires 2-5 ruled in hard point, frame only.
Watermark(s): Ochsenkopf, similar to Piccard, V. 334, Dinkelsuhl, Eichstätt, etc., 1467-87, and to V.512, Biberach, Öttingen, etc., 1464-66.
Other Decoration: 2- and 1-line initials in red with guide letters; 1-line initials within the text slashed in red. Entries in chapter lists underscored in red; rubrics throughout.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in northern Germany in the middle of the fifteenth century. On f. 14, s. XVI: "Omnia ad maiorem dei gloriam." According to De Ricci, was n. 26153 in a German catalogue; this number on a label on the spine. Acquired from A. S. W. Rosenbach by Henry E. Huntington in December 1922.

Keyword:

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Jesus Christ

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862133

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52687/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens