The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 903

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9903

Shelfmark:

mssHM 903

Title:

Manuel des péchés

Author:

William, de Wadington, active 13th century

William of Waddington WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1340 and 1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 205 : parchment ; 167 x 240 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bastard anglicana.
Layout: 110 2-48 512(+4, f. 38) 6-78 8(ff. 64-67, uncertain structure; f. 67 cut in half) 9-108 116(+2, f. 85) 128 136(+3, f. 101) 14-168 1710(through f. 139) 18-218 228(+6, f. 177) 236 248 2512(-12); quires 18-25 should have been bound between quires 8 and 9. Catchwords on quires 1 and 2; quires signed in roman numerals, i-vii, then in letters, a-i for the section of ff. 68-139, then in roman...
Span folios: ff. 1-205v.
Other Decoration: Opening initials, f. 1, 5-line blue, and f. 68, 4-line parted red and washed-out blue, both with rough red flourishing; 3- and 2-line initials, alternating red and blue, some with simple void designs; alternating red and blue paragraph marks.
The texts have been carefully corrected throughout with the corrections entered in the margins and the erased areas prepared with chalk for new writing. Notes, possibly contemporary: f. 67v, "expensis augusti prima septimana xiiii s. xi d."; f. 140, written below each column and erased, "Hic deficit in __?___aria" (has been read "libraria"). Running headlines and other notes added in the...
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
On f. 139v between the end of the text and the prayer a contemporary erased inscription in the hand of the text reads: "A Johan __?___ li Romance." On f. 1, the early or mid-fifteenth century ownership note of the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary in York: "liber Monasterii beate Marie Eboracensis emptus per fratrem Clementem Warthwyk, qui Alienaverit Anathema" (Ker, MLGB, 217); also on f. 1, a...

Keyword:

marginalia (annotations)

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Bible. Gospels

Bible. Epistles

Sin

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862135

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52431/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens