The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1068
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9928
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1068
- Title:
- Works by Ephraem and othe church fathers
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1485 and 1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 168 : parchment ; 138 x 210 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Wills, Howell
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bâtarde.
Layout: 1-78 88(-6, after f. 61) 9-208 2110(-a leaf in the second half). Catchwords written horizontally; quires and leaves signed with letters of the alphabet and roman numerals. 25 long lines, ruled in pale red ink with single bounding lines; pricking visible in the outer margin.
Decoration: Three miniatures (and probably one missing before f. 62): f. 1, 13-line, Ephraem addressing a group of monks; f. 104v, 12-line, the meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate; f. 107v, 12-line, Augustine praying before an altar, seen through painted gold columns and a low arch. The style of the miniatures derived from the tradition of Fouquet. On these 3 folios, 5- or 4-line...
Other Decoration: On ff. 27v, 35v, 41v, 48 and 53, the divisions of the De compunctione cordis, similarly fashioned initials of varying sizes. Secondary initials, 2-line, painted gold on blue or maroon grounds with gold patterning, both abstract and with dogs' heads.
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written at the end of the fifteenth century, probably for Georges I d'Amboise whose coat of arms, barry of 6 or and gules, surmounted by a bishop's crozier, appears on ff. 1, 104v, and 107v. D'Amboise held various bishoprics, beginning with that of Narbonne in 1482; he became bishop of Rouen in 1493 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1498; he died in 1510. This manuscript not identified in... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862160
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52894/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
