The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1076
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9929
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1076
- Title:
- Etymologies and correspondence by Isidore of Seville
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1299
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 199 : parchment ; 219 x 324 mm
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 1-1412 15-168(through f. 184) 178 188(-8). Catchwords, some in rough frames, in lower right margin; leaves signed in lead in roman numerals through quire 5. In the Etymologies, 2 columns of 46 lines, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines for the text space and with additional double rules in all 4 margins; in the lower margin of the last leaf verso of each quire, another...
Other Decoration: Illustration in the left column of f. 34, 53 x 58 mm., of the sun as a spiral helix design in gold on a blue ground dotted in white; in the right column of the same folio, 76 x 24 mm., an illustration of the 7 phases of the moon in gold on a white-dotted blue ground. On f. 88v, a full page table of consanguinity colored in yellow, brown and some blue; the inscriptions of...
Assigned Date: s. XIII2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in England in the second half of the thirteenth century, with some additional work done in the early fourteenth century (f. 88v and notes to the rubricator). Four coats of arms on f. 88v: in upper left, gyronny of twelve or and azure (Bassingborne?); in upper right, or three chevrons gules (here in yellow and brown; Clare of Hertford and Gloucester?); in lower left, supported by... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862161
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51146/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
