The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 19915

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9942

Shelfmark:

mssHM 19915

Title:

Works by Augustine and Julianus Pomerius

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1190 and 1210

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 170 : parchment ; 166 x 231 mm

Former Owner(s):

Davies, Robert, -1710

Robert Davies WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Theological works by Augustine, Pascasius Radbertus, Julianus Pomerius, and passages from an unidentified work; written in approximately 1200 in England.
Span folios: ff. 1-170v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-78 810(through f. 66) 9-218. Catchwords of scribe i in the gutter, and of scribe ii in a small script in the center lower margin. Quire signatures in roman numerals in the middle of the upper margin, first leaf recto, "vii" on f. 49 and "viii" on f. 57; another signature (?) trimmed away in the middle of the lower margin, last leaf verso...
Decoration: Opening initial, f. 3v, 6-line, tan and blue, infilled with stylized vines and leaves in blue, tan, green and orange-red, on a tan ground within a green frame; 2-line initials in light blue, green or orange-red with infilling and extensions of stylized leaves through f. 66; thereafter 5- to 2-line unornamented initials in the same colors, except for a poor attempt at leaf infilling...
Notes in the margins in the scribe's[?] hand for the first text, enclosed in decorated and tinted frames, e.g. f. 5, within a ship; f. 6, on a pedestal; f. 36v, supported by grotesques with a dog's and a rabbit's head and with fish tails; f. 46, encircled by a dragon sprouting leaves from his mouth. In the lower margin of f. 42, a half figure of Christ[?] blessing. Crude sketches in lead of a...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/6/2012.
Belonged from an early date to the Cistercian abbey of St. Mary at Holme Cultram, Cumberland: on f. i verso, late 12th c. inscription, "Liber Sancte Marie De Homcoltran. Hec Continentur in hoc volumine Enchiridion Augustini, Prosper De vita contemplativa"; on f. 1, in the lower margin, 13th c, "Liber sancte Marie de holmo"; on the same leaf, in the upper margin, the pressmark, 15th c., "liber...

Keyword:

grotesques

sketches

manuscripts (documents)

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862174

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50878/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens