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
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1440 and 1460
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 100 : parchment ; 168 x 237 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Dunn, George, 1864-1912
Dobell, Bertram, 1842-1914
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862195
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51626/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
