The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1082

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9931

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1082

Title:

Die Vierundzwanzig Alten

Author:

Otto, von Passau, active 1386

Otto of Passau WIKIDATA

Artist:

Lauber, Diebolt, active 1427-1467

Diebold Lauber WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1431

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 320 : paper ; 210 x 278 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Littera currens.
Layout: 1-412 512(-6, after f. 53) 612(-6 after f. 64) 7-2612 2712(-11, 12). Catchwords in lower right corner; quire signatures in roman numerals on ff. 262v (xxii), 274v (cropped). 2 columns of 22-25 lines, frame ruled in lead.
Watermark(s): 4 types of Anchor; Crown; unidentified.
Decoration: Twenty-three simple miniatures, ca. 90 x 65 mm. in colored wash over black ink, enclosed in alternating red or light blue frames, with colored backgrounds often decorated with groupings of dots.
Other Decoration: Major initials, usually 5-line, in red with some void decoration; initials on ff. 103, 147v, 155v, 317 (the Dankbarkeit) infilled with simple colored designs; that on f. 166v, infilled with a sketch of a church. Secondary initials, 2- or 1-line, in red, either solidly colored or with void designs; 1-line initials slashed in red; red paragraph marks and underlining of Latin...
Some damage due to acidic ink.
Assigned Date: s. XV2/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.

Keyword:

decorated initials

miniatures (paintings)

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Christian literature, Early

Mysticism

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862163

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52789/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens