The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1032

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9914

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1032

Title:

Pharsalia

Author:

Lucan, 39-65

Lucan WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff 72 : parchment ; 164 x 237 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Span folios: ff. 1-72v.
Other Decoration: Parted red and blue initials, 12- to 8-line, with crude flourishing in ink of text and in red, on ff. 1, 11, 21v, 31v, 42, 52v, 62, 72; 2-line red initial for Epitaph on f. 1; 1-line initials slashed in red up to f. 14. Running headlines alternating red and black numbers up to f. 14, thereafter supplied, s. XVII. Sketch of a head, f. 9. A few marginal notes. Final leaves...
Assigned Date: s. XIV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
The name "Rocchigiani" on f. 17, s. XVII (?). Belonged to David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865-1921); his sale, London, 23 July 1914, n. 418 to G. D. Smith, Cat. 13 (1915) n. 693, who placed it in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917 n. 298 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

decorated initials

Poems

manuscripts (documents)

marginalia (annotations)

Rome (Empire)

Epic poetry, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862146

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51500/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens