The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26054

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9956

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26054

Title:

Arma Christi roll

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (2 membranes) : parchment ; 103 x 1638 mm

Note:

Parchment roll with the Arma Christi, a poem of religious contemplation with illuminations of emblematic representations of Christ and his Passion. Written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: 2 membranes. Support: Parchment. Layout: 148 lines of verse, very faintly ruled in ink. Written in a mixed hand with anglicana and early secretary forms.
Decoration: Twenty-four illustrations colored in pink, green and gold, in an unskilled style, and generally similar to those shown by Morris for Brit. Lib. Add. 22029: 1, the Vernicle with the face of Christ in the center of a large cloth, geometrically divided; 2, knife for the Circumcision; 3, pelican in its piety; 4, thirty pieces of silver; 5, lantern; 6, sword and stave; 7, rod; 8, a hand...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012.
Acquired by the Huntington Library at Sotheby's, 11 April 1961, lot 139.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

scrolls (information artifacts)

Passion of Jesus Christ

Arma Christi

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862188

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:48636/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens