The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1030

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9912

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1030

Title:

Aeneid

Author:

Virgil

Virgil WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1340 and 1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff 107 : parchment ; 195 x 282 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-48 58(-4, 5 after f. 35) 68(-4, 5 after f. 41) 7-138 148(-8). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin. 31 lines of verse through quire 8, thereafter 32 lines, with double bounding lines; pricking occasionally visible in the outer margin.
Other Decoration: 5- or 4-line initials for the Ps. Ovidian arguments and the books, alternating red and blue on square yellow grounds, with green and yellow leaf extensions, and possibly red and blue acanthus leaves; versals washed in yellow; red paragraph marks; nota bene hands; running headlines added by the same seventeenth century owner who retraced some of the text where the ink had...
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Italy in the middle of the fourteenth century, where it remained until at least the seventeenth century. Belonged to David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865-1921); his sale, London, 23 July 1914, n. 435 to G. D. Smith who placed it in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 443 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Keyword:

Poems

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Aeneas (Legendary character)

Epic poetry, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862144

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52720/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens