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
- Scribe:
- Ricardus Franciscus, active 1447-1470
- Artist:
- Abell, William, active approximately 1440-1460
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1447
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 14 : parchment ; 242 x 304 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Rawlinson, Thomas, Sir, 1647-1708
Huth, Henry, 1815-1878
Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862136
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50813/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
