The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25780
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9951
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 25780
- Title:
- Fragment from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Place:
- England?
- Date:
- between 1200 and 1215
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 10 : parchment ; 238 x 332 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Starr, Nathan Comfort, 1896-1981
Dickinson, Mary W. T
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Ten leaves from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, written in the opening years of the thirteenth century. Written in England or possibly France.
Span folios: ff. 1-10v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Two quires, probably originally sexterni; the first lacks its inner bifolium, remain; possibly two quires missing. 2 columns of 48 lines, some columns divided into 2 narrower columns (e.g. on ff. 5, 10v), ruled in lead, single bounding lines. Written by one person in a spiky littera textualis.
Decoration: Spaces reserved for 2-line initials. Notes to rubricator in the lower margin. Occasional corrections and index notes in a contemporary hand. Running headlines added.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
Probably originates in a French collection, for the 2 quires are wrapped in a paper bifolium inscribed on the back leaf in a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century hand, "Chevaux D'artillerie De Campagne." Folio i bears the number "510" and an 18th c. contents note, "fragmentum epistolarum Sancti hyeronimi ad Sanctos Augustinum et Alipium Episcopos. MS XII s.," surmounted by a cross... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862183
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51801/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
