The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26052

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9954

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26052

Title:

Enarrationes in Psalmos 101-150

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1150 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 287 : parchment ; 250 x 350 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos 101-150 written in eastern England in the second half of the twelfth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-287v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-812 9-1010 11-128 138(-5, no loss of text) 14-318 328(-5 through 8). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin through quire 8, thereafter in inner right corner. 2 columns of 40 lines through quire 6, of 38 lines in quires 7-10, of 36 lines in the rest of the book. Ruled in lead and brown crayon, double bounding lines, triple rules...
Decoration: On f. 1, fine large initial, approx. 95 x 83 mm., of pen-drawn ornaments, vines, palmette forms and biting dragons, reserved, against a blue and green ground, with some red in the dragons; on f. 5v, a smaller initial in the same style, but without colors; initials, 6- to 3-line, up to f. 99 in plain red, yellow, green or blue, occasionally with simple foliage tendrils in the same...
Numbers of psalms added, in 13th/14th cent., in running headlines in arabic numerals. Some marginalia in red. Later sketches, imitative of the dragons in the initial on that leaf, in the lower margin of f. 120v. Bad stains on ff. 173v-174; lower 2/3 of f. 287 cut away.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012.
In the upper margin of f. 1, the pressmark "B.B." Listed by Ker, MLGB, 170 as possibly from the Augustinian abbey of St. Osyth in Essex. Belonged to the Tollemache family of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, who began collecting at the turn of the seventeenth century. For a brief history of this collection, see Sotheby catalogue, 14 June 1965, iii-viii. N. 63 in the old Helmingham catalogue; small...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Bible. Psalms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862186

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51564/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens