The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 932

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9904

Shelfmark:

mssHM 932

Title:

Statutes of the Archdeaconry of London

Statute

Scribe:

Ricardus Franciscus, active 1447-1470

Ricardus Franciscus WIKIDATA

Artist:

Abell, William, active approximately 1440-1460

William Abell WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1447

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 14 : parchment ; 242 x 304 mm

Former Owner(s):

Rawlinson, Thomas, Sir, 1647-1708

Thomas Rawlinson WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bastard secretary.
Layout: 112(-2) 24(-3). 35 long lines ruled in red ink, top 2 lines full across.
Decoration: Two historiated initials, ff. 2v (12-line) and 10v (7-line), depicting respectively Bishop Roger Niger and Archbishop William Courtenay, each with 2 monks. On f. 2v, the initial stems enclosing blue and pink elongated and twisted acanthus leaves shaded in self-color; both initials with foliage sprays from extended leaves in blue, green, pink and gold.
Other Decoration: On f. 11v, 8-line particolored initial with foliage spray. 2-line initials in gold on white-patterned blue/maroon grounds with sprays of green lobes and gold motifs, at the table of contents, the chapters of the first statute and the texts on f. 13r-v. Chapters of the first statute numbered in red arabic numerals in the outer margin.
The scribe signed and dated the codex on f. 13v; please see: K. L. Scott, "A mid-fifteenth century English illuminating shop and its customers," JWCI 31 (1968) 170-96, especially 170, n. 3, with a list of other known manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Regarding the artist, please see: J. J. G. Alexander, "William Abell 'lymnour' and 15th Century English Illumination," Kunsthistorische...
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in England in 1447 by Ricardus Franciscus. Apparently belonged to Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) for whom the volume was bound; his collection sold in 16 sales between 1721-1734. In 1876 sold by Quaritch to Henry Huth (1815-78); The Huth Library: a Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings Collected by Henry Huth (London 1880) 3:862-63. The collection...

Keyword:

decorated initials

England

Fifteenth century

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Ecclesiastical law

England--London

Early works

Portraits

Catholic Church. Archdeaconry of London (England)

Canon law

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862136

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens