The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25778

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9950

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25778

Title:

De eruditione principum

Author:

Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271

William Perault WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 93 : parchment ; 180 x 269 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Guilelmus Peraldus' De eruditione principum written in France in the first third of the fourteenth century. For attribution to Guilelmus Peraldus, see Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1626. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas.
Span folios: ff. 1-93v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112(-4, after f. 3) 212(-6, 7 after f. 16) 310(-4, 7 after ff. 24 and 26) 410(-2, 5, 6, 9 after ff. 30, 32, 34) 512(-2, 4, 10 after ff. 36, 37, 42) 612(-11, 12 after f. 54) 712 one quire missing here 812(-1 after f. 66) one quire missing here 98 108. Catchwords in lower right margin; quires signed in lead on last leaf verso in early form...
Decoration: Parted red and blue initials, 6- and 5-line, with filigree infilling, tendrils and cascades in both colors; alternating red and blue initials, 2-line, with similar decoration. Alternating plain red and blue initials, 1-line, in the chapter list at the beginning of the book and in those that remain before the individual Books (for Books 4, 5 and 7). Running headlines across the...
Two quires and 15 leaves missing with loss of text as follows: after f. 3, Chapter list, Book 5, 21 to Book 7, 5; after f. 16, Book 1, 7 to 1, 9; after f. 24, Book 1, 15 to 2, 1; after f. 26, Book 2, 3 to 2, 6; after f. 30, Book 2, 10 to 2, 11; after f. 32, Book 2, 13 to 3, 3; after f. 34, Book 3, 4 to 3, 5; after f. 36, Book 3, 7 to 3, (?); after f. 37, Book 3, (?) to 3, 9; after f. 42, Book...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
Belonged to Isham Keller of Redlands, California who may have removed the missing quires and leaves before selling it to Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, in April 1947; acquired from Dawson's by Mrs. Mary W. T. Dickinson. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Christian education

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862182

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52772/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens