The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1040

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9922

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1040

Title:

Works

Author:

Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage

Cyprian WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Bartholomeus de Schianchis of Parma

Bartholomeus de Schianchis WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome

Rome TGN

Date:

1456

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 240 : parchment ; 175 x 270 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: 1-2410. Catchwords written vertically from top to bottom within the space provided by the bounding lines. Signatures apparently consist of a letter of the alphabet and an arabic numeral. 36 long lines, ruled in dry point until f. 170, thereafter in ink. Double vertical bounding lines to form a space for initials. Pricking for these lines visible in upper and lower margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-240v.
Other Decoration: Opening leaf, full white vine-stem border, twining around a support made of 2 parallel gold strips which enlarge to form medallions for vine-stem flowers or putti blowing horns. In the lower margin, within an elaborate gold star pattern is a coat of arms. Opening initial, 7-line, in gold against a rectangular ground, the same as the border; rubric in gold square capitals...
The scribal colophon is at the end of the text on f. 240: . . . ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read "per O__?___"]. On f. iv verso, an 8-line erased inscription, s. XVII, apparently giving...
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Rome in 1456 by Bartholomeus de Schianchis, who also copied Vat. lat. 1774, in 1455. The first owner's name may have been erased from the colophon, f. 240; coat of arms, f. 1, remains unidentified: erased, an imperial chief: or an eagle displayed sable. On ff. 1, 137 and 240 the stamp "Di Casa Minutoli Tegrimi." Reproductions of the stamp as it occurs in J.A. 3216 are on pl. XXII...

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

Christian literature, Early

Correspondence (Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862154

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52026/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens