The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 19960

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9944

Shelfmark:

mssHM 19960

Title:

English historical collection

Author:

Worcester, John Tiptoft, Earl of, 1427-1470

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 179 : parchment ; 135 x 200 mm

Former Owner(s):

Chalmers, George, 1742-1825

George Chalmers WIKIDATA

Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842

John Sidney Hawkins WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

A historical and geographical text about England, derived from various sources: Augustine, Bede, the 1399-1437 version of the Latin Brut, Gildas, the Chester chronicler (Higden), Geoffrey of Monmouth, William of Malmesbury (often named or quoted by chapter), a 50-line metrical life of William of Wykeham and a list of the heresies of Wyclif. About half of the text pertains to material before...
Span folios: ff. 1-179v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-214 310 4-712 814 920 1012 1110 12-1412. The first quire is bound out of order and should be read: 1, 13, 6, 3, 4, 10, 8, 7, 5, 11, 12, 9, 2, 14. Quires and leaves signed with letters of the alphabet and early from arabic numerals on the first quire, with roman numerals on the successive quires. Catchwords written horizontally in inner...
Decoration: Space reserved on f. 1v for a miniature [?]; space reserved for initials; on f. 13v (which should have been f. 2v), a drawing in red of a T-O world map; on f. 8v (which should have been f. 7v), the lines to project the size of Christ's tomb. Rubrics, slashed initials in the text, and paragraph marks through f. 121. A few marginal notes, including dates in the Brut chronicle section.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
On f. iiii, a note in a fifteenth century hand reads: "Cronice Regum Anglie de diversis historiografis per dominum Iohannem Wigornensem Comitem sparsim collecte. Sheldwych. De orbis indagatione, divisione et descriptione per Iulium Cesarem in provincias et regiones factus; inter quas his liber maxime de Regno Anglorum et Regibus eiusdem similiter A Bruto usque in Annum decimum sextum henrici...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862176

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50918/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens