The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26959

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9961

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26959

Title:

Alphabetical compendium of the Speculum doctrinale

Author:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264

Vincent of Beauvais WIKIDATA

Place:

London

London TGN

Date:

1430

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 97 : parchment ; 120 x 178 mm

Former Owner(s):

Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851

Thomas Thorpe WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Abbreviation of materials mainly in Books 4 and 5 of the Speculum doctrinale of Vincent of Beauvais, arranged alphabetically by topic. Written in London in 1430, as signed on f. 97.
Span folios: ff. 1-97v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-118 128(+9). Catchwords in lower right margin, most enclosed by scrolls; quire 1 with no visible signatures; quires 2-12, marked +, a-k and the leaves in roman numerals. 26 long lines, ruled in ink with the top and bottom 2 lines full across. Written by 2 scribes: i, ff. 1-8v in an anglicana formata hand probably by an Englishman; ii, ff...
Decoration: Opening initial, 6-line, in a German or Dutch style in light blue with red flourishing and infilled with void leaf designs; secondary initials, 3- or 2-line, bulbous and plain in the same light blue, with guide letters visible; alternating red and light blue paragraph marks. In quire 1, 1-line initials tinted yellow. Sources cited underscored in red; rubrics throughout.
On f. 97v, 6 brief extracts from the text in the same mid-fifteenth century secretary hand that occasionally annotates the text: "De providencia et partibus eius . . . " On f. 97, the text is followed by a 3-line note added in a sixteenth century hand, "Idcirco intermittitur Lex, et non procedit in aeternum, quia improbus circumsidet iustum. Idcirco prodit ius Lubricatum," and two Hebrew...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012.
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, who had acquired it from Thomas Thorpe shortly before 1840; Phillipps MS 9622; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 21 March 1895, lot 1134. H. W. Edwards Catalogue 106 [1963] n. 61; acquired from Edwards by the Huntington Library in July 1963.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Theology, Doctrinal

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862193

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51806/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens