The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1035
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9917
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1035
- Title:
- De animalibus
- Aristotle
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1299
- Language:
- Latin, translated from an existing Arabic translation by Michael Scot
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 98 : parchment ; 240 x 368 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Pierleone, da Spoleto, -1492
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-812 92. Catchwords in inner right corner, decorated with 4 pattes-de-mouche; leaves signed in roman numerals, except on quire 8 where they are signed a-f. 2 columns of 52 lines, ruled in lead with single bounding lines and a set of double outer rules in all 4 margins; pricking for the various frame rules visible in all 4 margins (none noticed for the line rules).
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, 8-line, in dull pink set on a gold ground, depicting a cleric showing a group of animals to monks and students; C-shaped border in dull pink, blue, green, ochre and orange with biting animal heads and vines as pinwheels sprouting rounded trilobe leaves, the points of which often terminate in gold dots, in a style somewhat similar to A. Daneu Lattanzi...
Other Decoration: Major initials for the divisions of Books, 9- to 6-line (e.g. ff. 5v, 8, 9), parted red and blue with filigree and tendrils in both colors.
Fifteenth century foliation, 131-229; on f. 98v (i.e. 229v), in a fifteenth century hand, "sono carte cc xxx."
Assigned Date: s. XIII2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in southern Italy for a member of the family of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily and Naples, 1266-85; the remaining coat of arms on f. 1 is of Anjou: azure, semy of fleur-de-lys or, differenced with a label of 5 points gules (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 52); Mr. Van de Put, according to De Ricci, has suggested that the 2 erased coats of arms are Jerusalem (Charles I was crowned King of... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862149
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52102/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
