The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 27486

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9963

Shelfmark:

mssHM 27486

Title:

Epitome of the Historia ecclesiastica and other works

Epitome of the Historia ecclesiastica

Author:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735

Bede WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 100 : parchment ; 168 x 237 mm

Former Owner(s):

Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851

Thomas Thorpe WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Dobell, Bertram, 1842-1914

Bertram Dobell WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
An epitome of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and other works, some by Bede. Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century, possibly in Yorkshire. C. Plummer, Venerabilis Baedae Historia Ecclesiastica (Oxford 1896) 2:118 observed of this manuscript that its "scribe probably had local knowledge," since the name of the village near Catterick where James the Deacon lived, otherwise...
Span folios: ff. 1-100v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-108 11-1210. Catchwords present; quires and leaves signed in letters and arabic numerals. 33-34 long lines frame ruled with brown crayon. Written in a school secretary hand.
Decoration: 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; 1-line initials alternating red and blue. Running headlines; chapters numbered in the margin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012.
On f. 99 a contemporary hand notes a financial transaction: "Solut. Willelmo [cropped] iii s. i d. Al[cropped] Waltero xxx [cropped] et iii d. pro[cropped]." In an eighteenth century hand, Greek letters on pastedown, and "ΑΧΩ" on f. 1. Sold in 1836 by Thomas Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps; Phillipps 9428 and the Phillipps shelfmark in pencil on the front pastedown; the number also in ink on f...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

miscellanies

England

Fifteenth century

Church history

449-1066

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862195

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens