The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 902
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9902
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 902
- Title:
- Roman de la Rose
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1350
- Language:
- French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 135 : parchment ; 208 x 283 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-412 510(text complete) 6-1112 1210(-4, 6-8, 10). Catchwords in lower right margin, enclosed in simple ink frames when done by scribe i, or in fanciful animals when done by scribe iii; also by scribe iii, catchwords internal to the quires in a small noting hand, e.g. ff. 71v, 72v, 77v, 78v, 81v, 90v. Quire and leaf signatures, except on the first and the last 3 quires, in red ink in...
Span folios: ff. 1-135v.
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 7-line, in blue with void leaf pattern against red hatching, and a blue and red cascade along the text; 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing, or in red, usually lacking penwork, but sometimes with blue or purple flourishing; some 2-line initials in purple with red flourishing; 1-line initials washed in yellow; rubrics in red; spaces reserved for...
Assigned Date: s. XIV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Belonged to William Constable-Maxwell, 10th Lord Herries (1804-76), whose bookplate is on the front pastedown; in 1870 it was seen and noted by J. Stevenson in the 1st Report of the HMC, Appendix, p. 45. Subsequently it belonged to the 11th Lord Herries' daughter, the Duchess of Norfolk, who disposed of a portion of the manuscript collection, ca. 1912 (see De Ricci, "Bibliotheca Britannica... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862134
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49774/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
