The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1036

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9918

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1036

Title:

Georgics ; Aeneid ; and other Latin verse

Author:

Virgil

Virgil WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 207 : parchment ; 232 x 342 mm

Former Owner(s):

Morris, William, 1834-1896

William Morris WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Bennett, Richard, 1849-1930

Richard Bennett WIKIDATA

Winans, Ross, 1850-1912

Ross Winans WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: Collation beginning with f. 2: 1-28 3-410(through f. 37) 5-128 138(-4, 5 after f. 104) 14-178 186 19-258 266. Catchwords, some cropped, in the center of the lower margin in the script of the text. 31 long lines, ruled in lead, triple bounding lines on the left, single bounding lines on the right.
Decoration: Two miniatures by different artists: that on f. 2 (Georgics), 90 x 85 mm., in a simple blue frame done by the more competent artist, of a peasant ploughing his field with 2 oxen; in the hills behind, a deer and a castle; the 3-line initial beginning the Georgics set in the upper right corner of the miniature; L-shaped border of lush blue, green, dusky pink, lavender and orange...
Other Decoration: Initials for the book divisions of the Georgics and the Aeneid and the initials for the first arguments of the 2 works, usually 14-line (but possibly 18-to 2-line), in white-patterned and self-shaded blue, dusky pink or orange infilled with colored acanthus leaves on painted gold or black grounds, the whole placed on burnished gold grounds and decorated with gold balls...
Early foliation, s. XVI?, begins at 17 on current f. 2, suggesting the loss of 2 quires, perhaps containing the Bucolics.
Assigned Date: s. XV1.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Italy, perhaps in Florence as suggested by the style of the initials, in the first half of the fifteenth century. Belonged to William Morris (1834-96); his bookplate on the front pastedown and cataloguing notes in the hand of Sir Sydney Cockerell tipped in the front of the volume. Morris' manuscripts sold at his death to Richard Bennett; this manuscript among those re-sold by...

Keyword:

Poems

palimpsests (manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

decorated initials

Epic poetry, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862150

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51533/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens