The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1026
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9908
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1026
- Title:
- Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem
- Valerius Maximus
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1350 and 1399
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 128 : parchment ; 202 x 270 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: 1-38(through f. 24) 46 58(through f. 38) 68(through f. 46) 7-88(through f. 62) 9-158 1610.
Span folios: ff. 1-128v.
Other Decoration: Major initials for the prologue and the books, usually 6-line (but as small as 4-line or as large as 9-line) by one person in dark shades of orange, olive green, purple, ochre, blue and dusky pink, patterned in white, set on square grounds with acanthus leaf infilling and extensions (ff. 1, 11v, 23v, 37v, 50v, 66, 79v, 94, 112v). Each book preceded by a chapter list in red...
Apparently two fourteenth century fragmentary manuscripts: ff. 1-21, palimpsest, and copied towards the middle of the fourteenth century for its overlying text (the two underlying manuscripts are different from one another); and ff. 63-128, copied at a somewhat later date, probably during the second half of the fourteenth century. To this combination various missing portions were added in...
Assigned Date: s. XIV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in Italy, perhaps in the north-east, to judge from the orthography. Erased ex libris in the lower margin of f. 1. On f. 128v is an ownership note, s. XV: "Iste liber est mei bastiani pinelli __?___ quem emi a Iohanne bernegensi"; in a different hand, below that, is the note "di G.b." (Giovanni Bernegense?). Placed by G. D. Smith in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 441... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862140
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50894/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
